WoRMS taxon details
Conus lividus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792
AphiaID: 215541
AphiaID: 215541
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Lividoconus Wils, 1970 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Conus Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Conus plebejus Link, 1807 (synonym of Conus lividus) Conus primula Reeve, 1849 (synonym of Conus lividus) Cucullus monachos Röding, 1798 (synonym of Conus lividus Hwass, 1792) Lividoconus lividus (Hwass in Bruguière, 1792) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Tucker J.K. (2009). Recent cone species database. September 4th 2009 Edition. [details] basis of record: Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice [details] additional source: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details] additional source: Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. 2009 Recent Mollusca. Pp 196-219 in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.), The New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch [details] additional source: Filmer R.M. (2001). A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758 - 1998. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 388pp. [details] source of synonymy: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1923). Liste préliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux espèces nouvelles. J. conchyliol. 68: 21-74 (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Severns M. (2011) Shells of the Hawaiian Islands - The Sea Shells. Conchbooks, Hackenheim. 564 pp. [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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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Conus lividus var. detritus Menke, 1830 (nomen dubium) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Red Sea [details] Tanzania [details] West Coast of South Africa [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (75 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (235 nucleotides; 229 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Thick shell, up to 5 cm, with moderate spire and prominent nodules on shoulders of whorls. Colour light yellow to fawn, to dark purplish brown, with a single whitish band across the centre of the body whorl and another around shoulders. Base of the shell purplish-brown. Aperture narrow and purple with faint central, white band. Habitat: around rocks and coral reefs in shallow water. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. (Richmond, 1997). [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215541 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2013). Conus lividus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215541 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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