Marine Species Traits - Conasprella elegans (G. B. Sowerby III, 1895)

WoRMS taxon details

Conasprella elegans (G. B. Sowerby III, 1895)

AphiaID

835364 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:835364)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Conasprella Thiele, 1929

Original name

Conus elegans G. B. Sowerby III, 1895

Synonymised names

Conasprella (Fusiconus) elegans (G. B. Sowerby III, 1895) · alternative representation

Conasprella elegans elegans (G. B. Sowerby III, 1895) · unaccepted

Conus elegans G. B. Sowerby III, 1895 · unaccepted

Conus elegans elegans G. B. Sowerby III, 1895 · unaccepted

Fusiconus (Fusiconus) elegans (G. B. Sowerby III, 1895) · unaccepted

Fusiconus elegans (G. B. Sowerby III, 1895) · unaccepted

Fusiconus elegans elegans (G. B. Sowerby III, 1895) · unaccepted

Profundiconus elegans (G. B. Sowerby III, 1895) · unaccepted

Direct children (2)

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Subspecies Conasprella elegans elegans (G. B. Sowerby III, 1895) accepted as Conasprella elegans (G. B. Sowerby III, 1895)
Subspecies Conasprella elegans ramalhoi (Coomans, Moolenbeek & Wils, 1986) accepted as Conasprella ramalhoi (Coomans, Moolenbeek & Wils, 1986)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Conus elegans G. B. Sowerby III, 1895) Sowerby, G. B. III. (1895). Descriptions of nine new species of shells. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 1(5): 214-217, pl. 13., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15167517
page(s): 215, pl. 13 fig. 8. [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Persian Gulf

type locality contained in Persian Gulf [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Conasprella elegans (G. B. Sowerby III, 1895). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=835364 on 2025-04-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2015-03-06 15:42:57Z

created

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Conus elegans G. B. Sowerby III, 1895) Sowerby, G. B. III. (1895). Descriptions of nine new species of shells. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 1(5): 214-217, pl. 13., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15167517
page(s): 215, pl. 13 fig. 8. [details]

new combination reference Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015). One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81: 1-23., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyu055 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (51 publications) (from synonym Conus elegans G. B. Sowerby III, 1895)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)