WoRMS taxon details
Conus litteratus Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 215522
AphiaID: 215522
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Conoidea (Superfamily) > Conidae (Family) > Conus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Conus Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Conus arabicus Lamarck, 1810 (synonym of Conus litteratus) Conus grüneri Reeve, 1844 (synonym of Conus litteratus) Conus moncuri Filmer, 2005 (synonym of Conus litteratus) Cucullus pardus Röding, 1798 (synonym of Conus litteratus Linné, 1758) Strategoconus litteratus (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] basis of record: Tucker J.K. (2009). Recent cone species database. September 4th 2009 Edition. [details] additional source: Filmer R.M. (2001). A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758 - 1998. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 388pp. [details] from synonym: Bouchet, P.; Fontaine, B. (2009). List of new marine species described between 2002-2006. Census of Marine Life. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Filmer R.M. 2005. A New Conus species from the Philippines (Gastropoda - Conidae). Of Sea & Shore, 27(1): 58-63 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 296 pp. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Seychelles [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (56 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (89 nucleotides; 123 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Thick, heavy shell with flat spire, up to 13 cm. Colour cream with 2-3 axial bands of yellow or orange bands dotted with black. Habitat: in sand in and among coral in shallow water. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. (Richmond, 1997). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215522 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Conus litteratus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215522 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||||||||
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