Conus boavistensis Rolán & Fernandez in Rolán, 1990
Pictures:
Picture
Link: Holotype in MNCM Manolo Tenorio
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Radula Picture: Manuel Tenorio & Emilio Rolán
Published in: Iberus
Sup. 2, p. 23, pl. 1, f. 17, pl. 2, f. 17, pl. 4
Ocean geography: East Atlantic and West Africa
Type Locality: Morro de Areia, Boavista I., Cape Verde Is.; < 1 m.
Type Data: Holotype in MNCM deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 13.2 x 7.7 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Africonus Species:-boavistensis
Synonyms:- wandae Cossignani, 2014; barroensis Cossignani, 2014; varandinhensis
Cossignani & Fiadeiro, 2017
Geographic Range:-In many locations of Boavista Island, Cape Verde
Habitat:-Found in the cracks between rocks and low stones, in shallow
depth
Description:-Source: Original description Iberus
Description: Morphology of the seashell. The maximum dimension of the specimens
studied is between 10 and 17 mm. The silhouette is not very wide, is quite
small and has a spire a little high; this spire has a rectilineate pattern, its
whorls are not stepped and have spiral striations; its color is white with some
dark areas. The coloring of the shell, in a first impression, is gray blue or
green; with magnification, it can be appreciated that there are two bands in
which are created clear areas (of azure white color). One of these bands is in
the lower half of the last whorl and the other, between this and the shoulder.
The areas are variable but, frequently, are formed by oblique lines or at an
angle. The dark color that is found among them oscillates between olive green
and the greenish brown. A certain variability exists in the pattern indicated.
The aperture is dark inside with two white bands, one in the middle and another
near the anal canal. The lip edge is clear. Columela has a smooth violet color.
Periostracum smooth, yellow, matt and transparent.
Discussion:-
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Conus bocagei Trovao, 1978
Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype
in CPAS A. Monteiro
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Published in: Bol. Cent. Port. Activ. Subaq. ser. IV-N-4, p. 17, pl. I., f. 2-2b, pl. II, f. .
3 & 4, pl
Ocean geography: East Atlantic and West Africa
Type Locality: Lobito, Angola (between 13deg 35' S. 12deg 19' S); 8-12
m.
Type Data: Holotype in CPAS deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 27.2 x 16.8 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Varioconus Species:-bocagei
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-West Africa, Angola
Habitat:-Found in rocks 1-12 m
Description:-Source Original description
Small to moderately small, moderately light to moderately solid. Last whorl
ovate to broadly ovate. Outline convex at adapical third, almost straight
below. Left side slightly concave near base. Aperture wider at base than near
shoulder. Shoulder subangulate to angulate. Spire of moderate height, outline
straight to sligthly sigmoid.Teleoconch sutural ramps flat to slightly
concave,with fine spiral striae. Last whorl smooth and dull, with about 10
basal spiral cords.
Ground colour bluish white. Last whorl with spiral rows of alternating brown
and white dots and dashes, at shoulder and at base coalescing to brown flecks,
leaving short light streaks. Aperture light to dark brown with a light
collabral zone and a light central band
Shell morphometry:
L 20-32 mm
RD 0.67-0.78
RSH 0.12-0.20
PMD 0.69-0.77
RW 0.09-0.10 g/mm
Discussion:- C. bocagei can
easily be distinguished from most of the other endemic Conus species of Angola
by its angulate to subangulate -instead of rounded -shoulder and bluish ground
colour.
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Conus bocki Sowerby iii, 1881
Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype
in NMWC Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Published in: Proc.
Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 636, pl. 56, f. 7
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Amboyna
Type Data: Holotype in NMWC deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 57 x 32 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus
sulcatus Hwass in Bruguiere, 1792
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Asprella Species:-sulcatus bocki forma
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-W. Thailand, Philippines and Melanesia.
Habitat:-Reported in depths of 20 to 240 m.
Description:-Source Living Conidae C. sulcatus
Forms bocki usually nearly smooth or weakly sculptured.
Ground colour white. Last whorl variably suffused or streaked with yellowish to
dark brown. Almost uniformly brown shells intergrade with largely white shells.
Shoulder edge usually white. Aperture white.
Discussion:-No Data
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Conus bodarti Coltro, 2004
Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype
in MZUSP Original Description
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Published in: Strombus
11, p. 2
Ocean geography: West Atlantic and Caribbean
Type Locality: 125 km NE Abrolhos Arch., off Alcobaca, Bahia State,
Brazil (15deg 50' S, 37deg 57' W)
Type Data: Holotype in MZUSP deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 16 x 8 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus
mindanus Hwass in Bruguiere, 1792
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONILITHIDAE SubFamily:-CONILITHINAE
Genus:-Jaspidiconus Species:-mindanus
bodarti forma
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Brasil
Habitat:-On rubble and coral sand bottom at 20-35 meters
Description:-Source:Original description
Length: 12 to 16 mm, with convex sides of the body whorl in adult specimens,
weak deflection in 1/6 anterior body. Straight-sided spire. Shoulder roundly
angulated and nodulose. Body whorl with 12- 14 incised lines, starting near the
siphonal canal up to middle of the body. Apex yellowish smooth with 2 to 2 1/ 5
whorls. Spire with 6 up 8 whorls, with medium deep suture, angle 80-85deg.Color
body red-brown with grey and white marks, 18-20 spiral cords with interrupted
brown and white dots, purple mark on the siphonal canal. Some specimens have
yellowish marks. White aperture.
Discussion:-The shell differs from C.
mindanus Hwass, 1792 and Conus iansa
Petuch, 1979 in shape, spire angle, aperture and color apex. Conus iansa is more wide, has more
spiral cords (22 up to 25), and the aperture is widely open near the siphonal
canal. Conus mindanus is more slender
and smoother, with fewer incised lines near the siphonal canal. Both species
live near the continental area, and have not been found on the offshore reefs.
Filmer considers it form of mindanus.
Tucker suggests that iansa,
bodarti,delucai, schirrmeisteri are a group of synonyms separate from
mindanus.
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Conus boeticus Reeve, 1844
Pictures:
Picture
Link: Lectotype in NHMUK Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Published in: Conch.
Icon. I, Conus pl. 42, sp. 226
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Philippines
Type Data: Lectotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 37.2 x 18.7 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Rolaniconus Species:-boeticus
Synonyms:- nitidus Reeve, 1844; cerinus Reeve, 1848; ruppellii Reeve, 1848; rivularius Reeve, 1849; lachrymosus Reeve, 1849; meleus Sowerby iii, 1913; montillai Röckel, 1985
Geographic Range:-Mozambique, Mascarenes and Seychelles; Indonesia to
Japan and to Fiji.
Habitat:-Reported from lower reef slopes in Papua New Guinea and on sand
and weed beneath coral in Fiji .
Description:-Source Living Conidae.
Small to medium-sized, light to moderately solid. Last whorl conical to
ventricosely conical, broadly conical in form ruppellii; outline variably
convex adapically, slightly convex to almost straight below. Shoulder angulate
to subangulate, smooth to weakly tuberculate. Spire of low to moderate height,
variably concave in outline. Larval shell of about 2 whorls, maximum diameter
0.7-0.8 mm. Postnuclear spire whorls weakly tuberculate to nearly smooth.
Teleoconch sutural ramps flat, with 1-2 increasing to 3-5 spiral grooves. Last
whorl with weak or strong, mostly granulose ribs around basal fourth to half;
sometimes granulose ribs to shoulder (form rivularis).
Ground colour white. Last whorl with large, irregularly shaped, yellowish to
blackish brown markings above and below centre, often fusing into 2 spiral
bands and sometimes coalescing axially. Spiral rows of fine brown to blackish
brown dots extend from base to shoulder; dotted lines may be variably reduced
or replaced by dashed lines. Base usually white ventrally. Larval shell and a
variable number of adjacent sutural ramps light red or white. Later sutural
ramps radially maculated with brown; usually same colour as last whorl;
maculation variable. Sutural zone sometimes solid brown. Aperture white to
light violet or pink. In form ruppellii, last whorl usually reddish to blackish
brown except for narrow white spiral bands at centre and at shoulder, both
crossed by brown axial markings. Spiral rows of larger brown dots and dashes
than in other forms, from base to shoulder, often with intermittent white dots
and dashes within dark areas. Larval shell white. Aperture white. Shells from
Mozambique with bluish grey ground colour and olive- tan to dark olive spiral
bands.
Shell Morphometry
L 20-40 mm
RW 0.03-0.15 g/mm
(L 20-33 mm)
RD 0.61-0.72
(form ruppellii
other forms 0.54 - 0.68)
PMD 0.78-0.90
RSH 0.09-0.18
Discussion:-The nominal species listed above in synonymy represent
intraspecific variability of C. boeticus,
as follows:
C. cerinus is a form of C. boeticus with a relatively convex sided
shell (RD 0.66-0.68), with few spiral rows of dots.
C. lachrymosus is a form of C. boeticus with the shell largely
overlaid with tan to reddish brown axial maculae and dashed to dotted spiral
lines.
C. meleus, has a white shell with yellow axial blotches
of both sides of centre; its morphological characters does not justify
taxonomic separation from C. boeticus.
Similar shells from Augustus Is., N.W. Australia may be attached to this form.
C. nitidus seems to be a juvenile
specimen, described and depicted by Reeve as light orange-brown and encircled
with interrupted brown lines, apex pink.
C. rivularius refers to entirely
granulose shells of C. boeticus,
known from Indonesia and the Philippines.
C. ruppellii (syn. C. fultoni), known from Philippines and
Indonesia, is assigned as a form of C.
boeticus, because both occur sympatrically and the conchological
differences do not justify separation at the species level. They can be
separated neither by the characters of their larval shell nor by the morphometry
and the sculpture of the teleoconch, and shells with an intermediate colour
pattern occur.
C. cerinus stout shell with few spiral rows
of dots;
C.
lachyrmosus shell largely overlaid with tan to reddish brown axial
markings and dashed to dotted spiral lines;
C.
meleus white shell with yellow axail blotches on both sides midbody;
C. rivularis granulose specimen from
Philippines/Indonesia
Conus
boeticus f. cerinus Reeve, 1848
Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in
NHMUK Mike Filmer
Published in: Conch.
Icon. I, Conus., Suppl., pl. iii, sp.
283
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Mindanao, Philippines
Type Data: Holotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 29 x 15 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus boeticus Reeve, 1844
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Rolaniconus Species:-boeticus
cerinus forma
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Philippines
Habitat:-Not Known
Description:-Source Visaya, Filmer
C. cerinus Reeve, 1848 is an ovate,
convex sided and rather solid shell with a rounded and vaguely undulate
shoulder. The body whorl has irregular spiral cords, which are more pronounced at
the base. The shell is ivory-white to cream with brown blotches axially aligned
and forming two broken brown bands at either side of the center these blotches
may cross the space between the bands. There are some sparse, fine brown spots
forming broken spiral lines. The aperture is rather broad at the base, narrower
at the shoulder and curved. The anal notch is shallow and the lip is thick. The
columella is white and the interior is pinkish-white.
Discussion:-Not many specimens of C.
cerinus are known. From those that are known the shell of C. cerinus differs from the shell of C. boeticus only by its more convex
sides and higher spire.
Conus
boeticus f. meleus Sowerby iii, 1913
Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in NHMUK
Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Published in: Ann.
Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xi, p. 558,
pl. ix, f. 3
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Kii, Japan.
Type Data: Holotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 29 x 15 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym colour form of Conus
boeticus Reeve, 1844
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Rolaniconus Species:-boeticus meleus forma
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Japan - Australia
Habitat:-Sand shallow water
Description:-Source Living Conidae. C
boeticus.
C. meleus has a white shell with
yellow axial blotches of both sides of centre
Discussion:-No Data
Conus
boeticus f. montillai Röckel, 1985
Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in
NMSF Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Published in: Heldia.
I, Heft 2, p. 61, pl. 9, f. 1-5
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Coron, Palawan, Philippines
Type Data: Holotype in NMSF deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 18.8 x 11.2 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus
boeticus Reeve, 1844
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Rolaniconus Species:-boeticus
montillai forma
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Palawan, Philippines
Habitat:-Shallow water
Description:-Source Living Conidae
C. montillai
Small, light to moderately light. Last whorl conical or ventricosely conical to
broadly or broadly ventricosely conical; outline variably convex, left side
often sigmoid. Shoulder angulate, moderately to weakly tuberculate. Spire of
moderate height, outline concave. Larval shell of about 1.75 whorls, maximum
diameter 1 mm. Postnuclear spire whorls tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps
flat, with 1 increasing to 4-6 spiral grooves. Specimens with granulose spiral
ribs from base to shoulder intergrade with specimens with granulose ribs
restricted to basal third of last whorl; ribs stronger abapically.
Ground colour white. Last whorl with variably sized brown axial blotches, often
fusing into 2 smeary spiral bands within adapical and abapical third. Usually
with sparse spiral rows of brown dots and dashes, rarely extending from base to
shoulder. Larval shell and a few adjacent sutural ramps pink. Later spire
whorls crossed by brown streaks, often partially reduced to brown spots between
marginal tubercles. Aperture white.
Shell Morphometry
L 17-23 mm
RW 0.04-0.09 g/mm
RD 0.66-0.76
PMD 0.78-0.89
RSH 0.16-0.22
Discussion:-
Conus boeticus f. nitidus
Reeve, 1844
Pictures:
Picture Link: Representation
of Lectotype Mike Filmer
Published in: Conch.
Icon. I, Conus, pl. 47, sp. 266
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Designated Philippines.
Type Data: A representative type figure has been recorded as: Conch
Icon., Pl. 47, sp.266
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus
boeticus Reeve, 1844
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Rolaniconus Species:-boeticus
nitidus forma
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Philippines, Japan
Habitat:-Sand shallow water
Description:-Source Living Conidae
C. boeticus
C. nitidus seems to be a juvenile
specimen, described and depicted by Reeve as light orange-brown and encircled
with interrupted brown lines, apex pink. The type figure is orange brown with
dark brown solid lines and white areas at middle and on spire.
Discussion:-No Data
Conus
boeticus f. rivularius Reeve, 1849
Pictures:
Picture Link: Syntype in
NHMUK Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Published in: Conch.
Icon. I, Conus, Suppl., pl. vi, sp. 261
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Moluccas
Type Data: Syntype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 28 x 14 mm figure
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus
boeticus Reeve, 1844
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Rolaniconus Species:-boeticus rivularius forma
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
Habitat:-Sand shallow water
Description:-Source Living Conidae
C. boeticus
C. rivularis refers to entirely
granulose shells of C. boeticus,
known from Indonesia and the Philippines
Discussion:-No Data
Conus
boeticus f. ruppellii Reeve, 1848
Pictures:
Picture Link: Syntype in NHMUK
Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul
Kersten
Published in: Conch.
Icon. I, Conus, Suppl., pl. ii, sp. 273
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Red Sea (Ruppell); corrected to the Philippines.
Type Data: Syntype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 24.5 x 14 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus
boeticus Reeve, 1844
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Rolaniconus Species:-boeticus ruppellii forma
Synonyms:- fultoni Sowerby
iii, 1887
Geographic Range:-Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomons
Habitat:-Sand shallow water
Description:-Source Living Conidae
C. boeticus
C. ruppellii differs by having much
straighter sides; a broader shoulder; much stronger spiral lines or broad brown
bands on body whorl; bluish white aperture.
Discussion:-No Data
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Conus boholensis Petuch, 1979
Pictures:
Picture
Link: Holotype in DMNH Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Published in: Nemouri, no. 23,
p. 12, f. 20 & 21
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Off Panglao, Bohol Is., Philippines; ca. 250 m.
Type Data: Holotype in DMNH deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 38 x 18 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONILITHIDAE SubFamily:-CONILITHINAE
Genus:-Yeddoconus Species:-boholensis
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Philippines; New Caledonia; NW Australia; N Somalia
Habitat:-In 125-300 m (Philippines); in 300 m (N.W. Australia); at the
edge of coral reef (Vietnam); in 310-550 m (New Caledonia region).
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Moderately small to medium-sized, light to moderately solid. Last whorl conical
to ventricosely conical; outline slightly convex, with almost straight right
side and sigmoid left side. Shoulder carinate, with a moderately deep exhalent
notch. Spire of moderate height to high, stepped; outline almost straight.
Larval shell of about 3 whorls, maximum diameter 1-1.1 mm. First 5-8
postnuclear whorls tuberculate; tubercles continuing as axial costae below
outer margins and costae still present in smooth whorls. Teleoconch sutural
ramps concave, with radial threads. Last whorl with spiral ribs at base and
below shoulder, and ribbons or ribs between; intervening grooves variably
broad, axially striate, and sometimes with a fine additional spiral rib.
Subadults with a more uniform surface sculpture.
Shell Morphometry
L 25-51 mm
RW 0.03-0.10 g/mm
(L 25-40 mm)
RD 0.56-0.67
PMD 0.78-0.95
RSH 0.20-0.32
Discussion:
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Conus bondarevi Röckel & Raybaudi M., 1992
Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype
in SMNS Original Description
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Radula Picture: Manuel Tenorio & Emilio Rolán
Published in: La
Conchiglia xxiii, no. 264, p. 25, f.
1-5, 9
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Off Northern coast of Somalia; 150 m.
Type Data: Holotype in SMNS deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 36.2 x 20.6 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Stellaconus Species:-bondarevi
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-N Somalia
Habitat:-From depths of 100-150 m
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Moderately small to medium-sized, moderately solid. Last whorl conical to
broadly conical; outline convex below shoulder, straight below. Shoulder
angulate. Spire low, outline sigmoid to concave. Larval shell of about 2
whorls, maximum diameter 1.0-1.2 mm. First 2.5-4 postnuclear whorls weakly
tuberculate, late whorls broadly carinate. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat, with
2 increasing to 3-4 spiral grooves; latest ramps may have additional spiral
striae. Last whorl with distinct spiral ribs on basal fourth to third.
Ground colour white, sometimes suffused with vale orange or violet. Last whorl
with a broad yellow, orange, red or brown spiral band on each side of centre,
occasionally with a narrow third band below shoulder. Ground-colour zone
sometimes narrow and obsolete at shoulder. Base white to orange. Larval whorls
white or yellow, orange or violet. Postnuclear sutural ramps shaded and
radially spotted with same colours as last whorl. Aperture white to pale
purple, slightly translucent.
Shell Morphometry
L 29-41 mm
RW 0.12-0.25 g/mm
RD 0.61-0.72
PMD 0.86-0.89
RSH 0.07-0.12
Discussion:-
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Conus bonfigliolii Bozzetti, 2010
Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in MNHN Luigi Bozzetti
Picture
Link: Luigi Bozzetti
Published in: Malacologia
68, 3
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Lavanono, Madagascar
Type Data: Holotype in MNHN deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 23.55 x 11.3 2mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species or a synonym of lozeti Richard, 1980; see Monnier et al., 2018 in Xenophora
Taxonomy 19
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Malagasyconus Species:-bonfigliolii
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Madagascar
Habitat:-No Data
Description:-Source Original decription
A shell of small size for the genus. maximum length 23.90mm, profile conical,
spire or moderate heďght wjth slightly concave outline; shoulder angulate. body
whorl sjdes straight. Protoconch prominent, 1.0mm in size. almost flat at the
top. consisting of 2 micro-tuberculate whorls. teleoconch of 6 slightly
turretted whorls. suture deep and narrow. with a weak subsutural ridge, sutural
ramp concave. covered by thick radial threads not reaching the shoulder; 2
spiral ribs on the top postnuclear whorls and 1 close to the shoulder on the
following ramps. shoulder broadly carinate and smooth. Aperture uniformly
narrow; body whorl sides smooth except for a few spiral ribs on the anterior third
and on the siphonal fasciole; strongly oblique dentiform plait on the
columella. Background colour pinkish white; on the body whorl irregular brown
blotches forming 2 spiral bands above the midbody and above the base; remaining
area covered by a weak reticulated pattern of light brown stained and even
spiral lines of articulated whitish and light brown dots. Spire postnuclear
whorls pinkish white with brown blotches evenly distributed. Siphonal fasciole
and columellar plait white; inside of the mouth pinkish white; protoconch
whitish. Operculum and soft parts unknown.
Discussion:
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Conus booti Petuch, Berschauer & Poremski, 2017
Pictures:
Picture
Link: Lectotype in LACM
Published in: Festivus
Vol. 49, Issue 3, p. 243 – 244, Fig. 2, B
Ocean geography: West Atlantic and Caribbean
Type Locality: From 2 m depth off Malmok, Aruba, Dutch Caribbean
Type Data: Lectotype in LACM deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 19.7 x 10.5 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONILITHIDAE SubFamily:-CONILITHINAE
Genus:-Jaspidiconus Species:-booti
Synonyms:-
Geographic Range:-Aruba
Habitat:- On clean coral sand sea floors in depths of 2-3 m
Description:-
Shell small for genus, stocky, inflated, wide across shoulder, with distinctly
convex sides; spire
subpyramidal, with slightly stepped whorls; shoulder sharply-angled, bordered with small, thin
raised carina; body whorl shiny, completely sculpted by 18-20 deeply-incised, evenly-spaced spiral sulci; shell areas between pairs of sulci slightly raised, producing broad, low cord and with each cord containing a line of low, almost obsolete rounded pustules; shell base color pale
yellowish-white or pale orange, overlaid with scattered large amorphous darker orange
flammules and blotches; spire whorls marked with widely-separated dark orange crescent-
shaped flammules; aperture wide, with dark yellow-orange color within the interior; protoconch
proportionally
large, bulbous, mammilate, composed of 2 whorls, pale yellow in color.
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Conus borbonicus H. Adams, 1868
Pictures:
Picture
Link: Holotype in NHMUK Mike Filmer
Picture
Link: Paul Kersten
Published in: Proc.
Zool. Soc. Lond. 1868, p. 288, pl. 28,
f. 1
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Isle of Bourbon
Type Data: Holotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 12 x5 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym of Conus tulipa
Linnaeus, 1758; it is a juvenile
Current Group Names:-
Not appropriate for the name borbonicus
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Conus borgesi Trovao, 1979
Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype
in NHMUK Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Radula Picture: Manuel Tenorio & Emilio Rolan
Published in: Amphitrite
I, no. 1, p. 6.,
pl. 1, f. 4
Ocean geography: East Atlantic and West Africa
Type Locality: Baia das Gatas, Ilha da Boavista, Cape Verde Is.; 2 m
Type Data: Holotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 26.1 x 15.1mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Africonus Species:-borgesi
Synonyms:- wandae Cossignani,
2014; pedrofiadeiroi Cossignani &
Fiadeiro, 2015; see Discussion
Geographic Range:-Boavista, Maio and Sta. Luzia of Cape Verde
Archipelago.
Habitat:-Found under rocks in depths varying from 2 to 40 meters.
Description:-Source Original description
Seashell conical, dense, of profile that would be said to be slightly pyriform,
of smooth appearance, presenting a vague brilliance, with some striae in the
anterior area. Shoulder broad and angled. The color base of the seashell is an
ivory white, with some pattern of brown, of tone variable, from light brown to
the very dark brown , rarely black. The pattern is constituted of small
irregular wavy flammules, forming sometimes rather broad lines, but generally
thin less dense nearby the base of seashell; in the anterior area coalescing,
forming a cross streak occupying approximately the final third of the whorl of
the shell. Sometimes the base color of the shell is visible under the pattern
in zigzag.
Immediately behind the anterior brown band the standard pattern is less marked
and the lines and points less numerous, giving a clearer base color appearance
to the seashell in that zone.
Spire straight or slightly convex profile. Spire whorls furrowed by 2 to 3
spiral striae. Apex elevated. Deep fine line of suture, well defined and with
slight irregularities. Color like the remainder of the seashell, with irregular
marks varying in dimensions of the brown tone that forms the body from the
seashell; those areas alternating with small zones in base color.
Aperture: parallel, slightly curved, thin convex lip to the columella, wider in
the anterior area. Interior of the lip of white, bordered by a band.
Discussion:-
Proposed new species Conus borgesi Trovăo, 1979
Taxonomic revision of West
African cone snails (Gastropoda: Conidae)
based upon mitogenomic studies: implications for conservation Tenorio, Abalde, Pardos-Blas & Zardoya 2020
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Conus boriqua Petuch, Berschauer & Poremski, 2016
Picture Link: Holotype in LACM
Published in: The Festivus, Vol. 48; p. 173 – 174; fig. 1: A & B
Ocean geography: Western Atlantic
Type Locality: Off Playa Boqueron, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
Type Data: Holotype in LACM deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 20.7 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONILITHIDAE SubFamily: -CONILITHINAE
Genus:-Jaspidiconus Species:-boriqua
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:- Puerto Rico
Habitat:- on clean carbonate sand in 3 m depth
Description:-Source Original
description
Shell of average size for genus, fusiform,
biconic, with distinctly rounded sides; spire high and elevated, pyramidal;
shoulder sharply-angled, distinctly sloping, bordered by prominent, overhanging
undulating carina; carinal undulations proportionally large, producing distinct
coronations on shoulder and spire whorls; body whorl polished and shiny, sculptured
with 15 deeply-incised spiral sulci, which become deeper and more
closely-packed toward anterior end; areas between spiral sulci ornamented with
single large, wide, raised pustulated cord; base shell color violet-purple (as
in holotype), bright pink, or purplish-pink; base color overlaid with prominent
large dark reddish-brown longitudinally-arranged amorphous flammules, often
arranged in a zebra pattern; evenly-spaced, tiny brown dots present on raised
body whorl cords; coronated shoulder and carina marked with alternating dark
brown and purplish-white spots, with brown spots being present between each low
knob; spire whorls pale violet, marked with very prominent, widely-spaced dark
brown amorphous flammules, which often connect to brown longitudinal body whorl
flammules; aperture wide and flaring, becoming wider toward anterior end,
cream-white within interior; protoconch proportionally large, rounded, composed
of 2 whorls; protoconch and early whorls white
Discussion:-
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Conus boschorum Moolenbeek & Coomans, 1993
Pictures:
Picture
Link: Holotype in Naturalis, Leiden
Alan Kohn
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Radula Picture: Manuel Tenorio
Published in: Apex
8, p. 20, f. 1-6,
17
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Masirah Island, Oman.
Type Data: Holotype in NATURALIS, LEIDEN deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 11 x 5.9 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Pseudolilliconus Species:-boschorum
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Masirah Island, Oman
Habitat:-From 0.1 m below low tide level to about 6 m.
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Very small and light. Last whorl usually broadly conical, outline convex; left
side concave basally. Shoulder angulate to carinate. Spire of moderate height
to high, stepped; outline straight to slightly concave. Larval shell of 1.75-2
whorls, maximum diameter 0.9-1 mm. Teleoconch sutural ramps concave, with 1
increasing to 3 obsolete spiral grooves in early whorls, spiral sculpture not
traceable in late whorls. Last whorl with spiral ribs on basal third.
Ground colour white. Last whorl with an interrupted to solid, yellowish to
blackish brown or olive spiral band at base and within adapical third; colour
zones sometimes also axially arranged. Light subcentral band with a meshwork of
pale grey background shades, edged with yellowish to dark brown spots;
sometimes spirally aligned dark spots extending from base to shoulder. Dotted
to dashed brown spiral lines from basal third to subshouldera area or
restricted to subcentral area, partially with intermittent white dashes. Larval
shell bicoloured: Initial part white, with a yellowish brown pre-sutural zone;
remaining part grading to solid yellowish brown. Postnuclear sutural ramps with
light to dark brown radial blotches crossing outer margins. Aperture showing
exterior pattern.
Shell Morphometry
L 9-13 mm
RW -0.02 g/mm
(10-11 mm)
RD 0.70-0.77
PMD 0.84-0.93
RSH 0.22-0.28
Discussion:-C. boschorum is
very similar to C. biraghii and C. korni. C. biraghii biraghii differs in its lower spire (RSH 0.12-0.19) and
its often more ventricose last whorl (PMD 0.77-0.91); the weak spiral grooves
below the shoulder of C. biraghii
biraghii are absent in adult specimens of C. boschorum. C. biraghii
omanensis has an often narrower last whorl (RD 0.61-0.74) with 1-2 spiral
grooves below shoulder, a narrower (0.8 vs. 0.9-1) and more contrastingly
bicoloured larval shell with fine radial ridges, and flat rather than concave
teleoconch sutural ramps with distinct spiral grooves also in late whorls. C. biraghii congruens is distinguished
by its narrower (0.8 mm) larval shell with distinct fine radial ridges and more
strongly contrasting colours, its 1-2 spiral grooves below shoulder, and the
prominent spiral sculpture on its early teleoconch sutural ramps. C. korni has more larval whorls
(2.25-2.5) with fine radial ridges, a lower spire (RSH 0.13-0.24), pronounced
spiral grooves on the early teleoconch sutural ramps, and 1-2 weak spiral
grooves below shoulder.
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Conus boucheti Richard, 1983
Pictures:
Picture Link:
Holotype in MNHN Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul
Kersten
Published in: J.
Malacol. Soc. Aust. 6 (1-2), pp. 53-58
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: SW of Ile des Pins, New Caledonia (22deg 5 S 167deg 15'
E); Dredged 400 m.
Type Data: Holotype in MNHN deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 17.5 x 9 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONILITHIDAE SubFamily:-CONILITHINAE
Genus:-Yeddoconus Species:-boucheti
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-New Caledonia
Habitat:-Found at 300-500 m
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Small to medium-sized, light to moderately light. Last whorl conical; outline
almost straight; right side may be slightly convex, left side slightly sigmoid.
Shoulder carinate. Spire of moderate height; outline concave. Larval shell of
about 3 whorls, maximum diameter 1.1-1.2 mm. About first 4 postnuclear whorls
tuberculate, following whorls carinate. Teleoconch sutural ramps slightly
concave, with closely-set, strong radial threads crossing obsolete spiral
striae. Last whorl with wide, axially striate spiral grooves, narrower, weaker
or obsolete adapically; 4 closely-set, punctate spiral grooves just below the
shoulder.
Ground colour white to beige. Last whorl with about 6-8 broad, brown spiral
lines on the ribbons between the basal spiral grooves; occasionally irregular
brown blotches in the ground-colour zone. Larval whorls beige. Postnuclear
sutural ramps with irregular brown radial blotches. Shoulder edge sometimes
ornamented with brown spots.
Shell Morphometry
L 17-39 mm
RW 0.04-0.08 g/mm
(L 17-25 mm)
RD 0.57-0.65
PMD 0.87-0.96
RSH 0.13-0.23
Discussion:-C. boucheti
differs strikingly from all other Indo-Pacific Conus species in its colour
pattern of basal basal brown spiral lines on an otherwise uniformly beige last
whorl.
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Conus bougei Sowerby iii, 1907
Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype
in NHMUK Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Published in: Proc.
Mal. Soc. Lond. Vii, part 5, p. 299, pl.
25, f. 1 & 2
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Mouac Is., New Caledonia.
Type Data: Holotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 21 x 11 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus
exiguus Lamarck, 1810
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Fulgiconus Species:-exiguus bougei forma
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-New Caledonia; Samoa
Habitat:-In S. New Caledonia, C.
exiguus known from coral, rubble, and coarse sand with algae in 13-53 m,
often inhabiting channels of the barrier reef with strong water currents.
Description:-Source Living Conidae. C
exiguus.
Small to medium-sized, light to moderately solid. Last whorl conical, sometimes
conoid-cylindrical in populations from very shallow water; outline convex, or
slightly convex adapically and less convex to straight towards base. Shoulder
angulate and tuberculate, subangulate and weakly tuberculate in populations
from very shallow water. Spire of low to moderate height; outline concave to
convex. In southern New Caledonia, larval shell of 2.0-2.25 whorls; maximum
diameter 0.7 mm in northern New Caledonia to 1 mm in the south. Postnuclear
spire whorls tuberculate to weakly tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat,
with 1 increasing to 4-7 spiral grooves. Last whorl with variably spaced,
shallow, punctate spiral grooves, sometimes from base to shoulder; spiral ribs
usually granulose and restricted to abapical area or extending to centre or
shoulder (form plumbeus). Largely
smooth specimens often with distinct non-granulose spiral ribs at shoulder.
Last whorl various shades of brown, leaving variously shaped and sized white
dots, spots, flecks or blotches, mostly located near shoulder and at centre,
sometimes also at base. Brownish tones ranging from yellowish, orangish and
olive-brown to dark reddish and blackish brown. Small individuals in northern
New Caledonia with small spirally arrayed white markings either extending
across entire last whorl or restricted to central area. The medium-sized
individuals in southern New Caledonia lighter in colour, with small to large
white markings often fusing into 2-3 spiral bands or reduced to a few scattered
dots or spots. Shells from very shallow water darkest in colour, with large,
partially white markings, axially or spirally arranged. Base sometimes light
violet. Larval shell white to pale yellow, pink in medium-sized shells from the
south. Postnuclear sutural ramps matching last whorl in colouration (including
number and size of white markings). Aperture of various shades of violet
(southern population) or bluish violet to brown (other populations).
Shell Morphometry
L 16-54 mm
RW 0.05-0.26 g/mm
(L 19-45 mm)
RD 0.57-0.67
PMD 0.83-0.95
RSH 0.09-0.20
C. e. bougei Northern form small
16-25mm conical.
Discussion:-No Data
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Conus boui da Motta, 1988
Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype
in MHNG Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Published in: Publ.
Ocas. Soc. Port. Malac. no. 11, p.
41, figs. A-C.
Ocean geography: West Atlantic and Caribbean
Type Locality: Pte. de la Baleine, SW coast of Martinique.
Type Data: Holotype in MHNG deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 30.2 x 17.3 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Dauciconus Species:-boui
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Martinique
Habitat:-No Data
Description:-Source Original description
Glossy shell with a low spire; sharply carinate shoulder; spire whorls are
lightly incised with numerous spiral threads; body whorl smooth but with
several ridges at the anterior end; ground colour is golden-brown; spire with
white and brown arcuate tessellations; axially-aligned strands of dark-brown
from shoulder on the body whorl; white band in the middle of the body whorl
overrun by these tessellations; sparse brown spots at the lower part of the
body whorl; aperture white with a narrow golden rim on the edge of the outer
lip.
Discussion:-Similar to C. daucus
but can be recognised by its colour form.
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Conus boutetorum Richard & Rabiller, 2013
Pictures:
Picture
Link: Paratype in MNHN G.
Richard
Published in: Annales
del Société des sciences naturelles de la Charente- Maritieme, May 2013
Supplément, “Second International Cone Meeting”,; p. 53-63, Pl. 1, Pl. 2, Pl.
3, Pl. 4, Pl. 5
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Afaahiti Lagoon, north coast of Tahiti, Society
archipelago.
Type Data: Holotype in MNHN deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 52,2 mm x 24 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Pionoconus Species:-boutetorum
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Society archipelago
Habitat:-at 30 m on coral slope.
Description:-Original Description
Soild shell, ventricosely conical, long and narrow profile. Spire of moderate height, with 8 whorls on the teleoconch. Protoconch is multispiral and pointed, with 3 whorls.
The body whorl has convex edges towards the posterior extremity and is slightly emaciated towards the anterior. It has an almost smooth texture with weak spiral grooves which become more pronounced towards the anterior quarter of the shell. The aperture is narrow, with an oblique, trough-shaped anal canal, which joins the callus of the sutural ramp. The shoulder is somewhat rough, with remnant of weak undulations along the keel. The spire shows 2 major spiral grooves along the sutural ramp on each of its whorls, and 3 slightly finer grooves along the callus that borders it. The light gap between each of its whorls gives the spire a gently stepped outline.
The protoconch is
greyish-white. The postnuclear whorls are white, with increasing shades of
orange. The basic color of the body whorl is pale pink, with 3 zones that carry
a varying number of a darker spiral patches: one situated below the shoulder, a
second in the medium third section below the widest part of the shell, and a
third one that crosses the anterior quarter. The spire is of pale pink color,
but the shoulder is white and decorated with small brown spots that continue on
the sutural ramp up to the early postnuclear whorls. The subadult and few of
the adult specimens show rows of smaller rounded sots arranged in tranverse
rows.
Discussion:-
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Conus bozzettii Lauer, 1991
Pictures:
Picture
Link: Holotype in MNHN Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Radula Picture: Manuel Tenorio
Published in: Apex
vi, no. 2, p. 33
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Cape Raas Haafuun, North-eastern Somalia.
Type Data: Holotype in MNHN deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 62 x 26 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONILITHIDAE SubFamily:-CONILITHINAE
Genus:-Conasprella Species:-bozzettii
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-N Somalia
Habitat:-Found at 150-200 m
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Medium-sized to moderately large, usually moderately solid. Last whorl conical
or ventricosely conical; outline convex at adapical third, less so at central
third, and straight (right side) or concave (left side) below. Shoulder
subangulate to rounded, usually broadly carinate. Spire of moderate height,
outline straight to slightly convex, with projecting, stepped apex. Larval
shell of about 3 whorls, maximum diameter about 1.2 mm. First 4-6 postnuclear
whorls tuberculate, later whorls carinate. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat or
slightly concave, with closely spaced axial threads and almost obsolete spiral
striae. Last whorl with punctate or axially striate spiral grooves at base and
weak ribs or narrow ribbons between.
Ground colour white. Last whorl usually with an interrupted spiral band of
brown axial blotches above centre, sometimes with traces of a similar band
below shoulder. Generally sparse spiral rows of variably numerous light brown
dots, dashes or bars occur primarily adapically. Completely white shells
intergrade with heavily dotted specimens. Larval whorls white. Teleoconch
sutural ramps either immaculate or with very sparse brown dots or dashes, often
aligned at outer margin in early whorls. Aperture white.
Shell Morphometry
L 40-63 mm
RW 0.09-0.17 g/mm
(L 40-60 mm)
RD 0.51-0.60
PMD 0.77-0.90
RSH 0.13-0.23
Discussion:-C. bozzettii resembles
C. ione, C. teramachii and C. gradatulus Weinkauff 1875. C. ione attains larger size (to 76 mm),
is heavier (RW 0.15-0.35 g/mm), and has a broader last whorl (RD 0.55-0.64). It
differs additionally in its slightly pyriform last whorl, more angulate or
carinate shoulder, and in its more prominent spiral sculpture on the last
whorl. The violet shades often present in C.
ione are absent in C. bozzettii;
in the former species, brown blotches form a spiral band on each side of the
centre of the last whorl. C. teramachii
is a larger species (to 111 mm) and lacks any pattern; its shoulder is more
angulate and strongly carinate, and its sutural ramps have a prominent spiral
sculpture. C. gradatulus attains
larger size, has a generally broader last whorl (RD to 0.64), its pattern lacks
spiral rows of dots, and the pink background shades often seen in this species
are absent in C. bozzettii.
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Conus brandonensis Lorenz, 2019
Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in MNHN
Published in: Conchylia 50
(1-4), 2019; Pl. 2, Pl. 3, figs 19-21
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: St. Brandon
Type Data: Holotype in MNHN deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 38.2 x 16.9 mm
Nomenclature: An available
name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Darioconus Species:-brandonensis
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-St. Brandon
Habitat:- Shallow water, below the hight tide line to
2 m, under isolated coral slabs in well-aerated, sandy areas.
Description: The shell is
medium sized, solid and moderately heavy. The body whorl is narrowly conoid,
cylindrical, slightly convex in the posterior third. The outline of the spire
is sigmoid: the early teleoconch whorls are domed, the sutural ramp of the body
whorl is flattened, the cshoulder subangulate. The sutural ramps are smooth and
slightly glossy, convex, with a shallow and narrow suture. The plurispiral
protoconch is pointed, 0,4 mm tall and 0,6 mm wide, with three smooth whorls.
the body whorl is smooth and slightly glossy. There are no spiral grooves even
at the anterior, microscopic growth lines and slightly irregular spiral threads.
The aperture is narrow, only slightly widening towards the anterior. The anal
notch is shallow. The ground color of the shell is plain white, with
discernible pink protoconch. The pink color extends onto the first teleoconch
whorls and fades on the fourth one. The spire and the body whorl show fine
triangular tentmark pattern of dark brown color. The tentmarks form two
transverse zones on the body whorl where the tentmarks are smaller and more
condensed. There are no other color or pattern elements on the shell. Also the
aperture is plain white. The color pattern variesblack to orange. In some
shells the darker pattern is extremely fine, and the netting is often
interrupted along a growth line. The periostracum is smooth and yellow brown.
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Conus branhamae Clench, 1953
Pictures:
Picture
Link: Holotype in AMNH Mike Filmer
Published in: Johnsonia
1, p. 24, pl. 12, f. 2
Ocean geography: West Atlantic and Caribbean
Type Locality: Green Turtle Cay, Great Abaco, Bahamas.
Type Data: Holotype in AMNH deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 27.5 x 13 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONILITHIDAE SubFamily:-CONILITHINAE
Genus:-Jaspidiconus Species:-branhamae
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Occurring in the northern and eastern Caribbean with
records from the Bahamas, Jamaica and the Grenadine Islands {Mustique). Also
reported from St. Croix and Antigua.
Habitat:-Coral mud flats
Description:-Source Vink
A rather small shell, 15 to 25 mm., with slightly convex sides of the body
whorl and a straight-sided spire, producing an angle of about 70deg. Shoulder
sharply angulate, body whorl smooth with a few incised spiral lines near the
base; in some specimens the area between the incised lines may be somewhat
pustulouse. Spire whorls flat, sometimes slightly stepped, nucleus: 1.5 whorls.
Colour white with irregular axial patches on either light brown or dark
mahogany brown on the body whorl and on the spire. In addition, spiral lines of
white dashes with or without dark brown dots may be present. Already Usticke
(1968) made the observation that albino shells are fairly common.
Discussion:-C. branhamae could
be confused with C. mindanus (which
has more concave tops of the spire whorls and a different pattern). Albino
specimens of C. branhamae could be
confused with C. puncticulatus colomba (which
has a twisted anterior end with a distinct siphonal notch).
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Conus brasiliensis Clench, 1942
Pictures:
Picture Link:
Holotype in MCZ Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Published in: Johnsonia
1, p. 24, pl. 12, f. 2
Ocean geography: West Atlantic and Caribbean
Type Locality: Victoria, Espirito Santo state, Brazil
Type Data: Holotype in MCZ deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 21.9 x 12.9 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Subspecies of Conus
archetypus Crosse, 1865
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Purpuriconus Species:-archetypus brasiliensis subsp.
Synonyms:- abrolhosensis Petuch,
1987
Geographic Range:-Brasil
Habitat:-Shallow water reef
Description:-Source Original description
Shell relatively thin and small, probably reaching length of 25 mm. Color a
mottled reddish brown in two bands seperated by midarea of white which is well
invaded by patches of the brownish red. Spire low, obtuse at 125deg angle and
possessing fine spiral threads. Aperture oblique with thin outer lip. Sculpture
of 6-8 spiral threads near base; remainder of shell smooth with faint axial
threads.
Vink commented
The subspecies has a colour pattern somewhat similar to that of typical C. archetypus but with the lighter
patches on the upper half of the body whorl very distinct, so that the pattern
can also be described as consisting of two broad spiral bands of brown, tan or
orange on a whitish background, often connected by axial flammules and streaks;
Many specimens with spiral lines of brownish dots. Background often not evenly
coloured.
Discussion:-No Data
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Conus bratcherae Petuch & Berschauer, 2019
Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in LACM
Published in: Festivus Vol.
51, P. 220 & 221, Fig. E & F
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: off Eilat, Israel, Gulf of Aqaba
Type Data: Holotype in LACM deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 33.6 x 15.9 mm
Nomenclature: An available
name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Darioconus Species:-bratcherae
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:- Red Sea
Habitat:- Found on sand and
coral rubble at 2 m depth
Description: Shell
of average size for genus, shiny and polished, cylindrical and fusiform,
narrow
across shoulder, with slightly convex sides; shoulder rounded, only slightly
angled, with sloping and faintly canaliculate subsutural area; spire elevated, distinctly pyramidal, with domed early
whorls; spire whorls slightly canaliculate; body whorl and spire whorls pure white,
overlaid by network of large and small interconnected reddish-brown triangles;
some large
triangles fuse into broad open white patches which are often separated by large reddish-brown
amorphous patches containing numerous small darker brown spiral lines of tiny dots
and dashes and minute white triangles; areas between small triangles often
filled with clusters
of minute triangles in fractal pattern; spire whorls also covered with diffuse
network of reddish-brown triangles and scattered darker brown patches; early
whorls and protoconch bright pink; protoconch aculeiform, projecting; aperture
proportionally wide, expanding toward anterior end.
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Conus brazieri Sowerby iii, 1881
Pictures:
Picture Link:
Holotype in NMWC Mike Filmer
Published in: J.
Conchol. iii, p. 234, pl. I,
f. 9
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Solomon Is.
Type Data: Holotype in NMWC deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 72 x 32 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym colour form of Conus
circumcisus Born, 1778
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Pionoconus Species:-circumcisus brazieri forma
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-W Pacific
Habitat:-In 4-200 m; in sand, coral rubble, clefts of coral reefs or on
lagoon pinnacles, beneath dead coral rocks.
Description:-Source Living Conidae C. circumcisus.
C. brazieri is smooth unspotted pale
banded pattern.
Discussion:-No Data
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Conus brettinghami Coomans, Moolenbeek & Wils, 1982
Pictures:
Picture Link:
Holotype in NHMUK Mike Filmer
Published in: Basteria
46, p. 39, figs. 258 a & b
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Designated Marinduque, Philippines (C. undulatus)
Type Data: Holotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued (C. undulatus)
Type Size:43 x 21mm
Nomenclature: a new replacement name (nomen novum) for C. undulatus Sowerby, 1858.
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus
sulcatus Hwass in Bruguiere, 1792
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Asprella Species:-sulcatus brettinghami forma
Synonyms:- undulatus
Sowerby ii, 1857
Geographic Range:-India, W. Thailand, Philippines to Melanesia
Habitat:-Reported in depths of 20 to 240 m.
Description:-Source Living Conidae
C. sulcatus
Form brettinghami usually nearly
smooth or weakly sculptured.
Ground colour white. Last whorl variably suffused or streaked with yellowish to
dark brown.
Discussion:-No Data
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Conus brianhayesi Korn, 2001
Pictures:
Picture
Link: Holotype in NMSA Original Description
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Published in: La
Conchiglia 33 ( 299), p. 18
Ocean geography: South Africa
Type Locality: Transkei, off Port Grosvenor (C. hayesi)
Type Data: Holotype in NMSA deposited and catalogued (C. hayesi)
Type Size: 18 x 11 mm
Nomenclature: an available name, a new replacement name (nomen novum)
for C. hayesi Korn 2000
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Sciteconus Species:-brianhayesi
Synonyms:- hayesi Korn,
2001
Geographic Range:-South Africa
Habitat:-Found in 70-100 m
Description:-Source Iconography
Small shell (normal size between 16 and 25 mm), light to moderately light. Last
whorl ventricosely conical to broadly conical. Shoulder subangulate to round.
Spire oflow to moderate height, profile straight to slightly domed, eventually
stepped, with a relatively large (1.5-1.6 mm) protruding white to light brown
protoconch. Teleoconch sutural ramps slightly concave to sigmoid or flat, with
many spiral striae on late ramps. Basal third to half of last whorl with
closely set ribs, becoming finer towards the base. Ground color white to cream.
Base brown or violet-brown. The pattem of the last whorl consists of brown
spirallines and/or spiral rows of dashes, which may be combined with or
replaced by spots or dots. Sometimes the spiral pattem elements may be fused
axially, but more frequently the last whorl appears tinged with creamy brown
and then the pattem elements are fused into a darker broad subcentral band and
a narrower band below the shoulder, leaving a variably broad white to creamy
brown spiral band at the centre. This band could appear overlaid with spiral
rows of brown maculae. The spire is usually white, with regularly arranged
brown spots, dots or curved streaks. The aperture is,white. The animal is
completely white.
Discussion:-C. brianhayesi is
found in a very localized area, in the northern Transkei region of South
Africa. They are a deep-water species , being dredged from about 70 to 100m
deep. They are only known from a very restricted area at present.
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Conus brianoi Cossignani & Allary, 2019
Pictures
Picture
Link:Holotype in MMM
Published in: Malacologia 102
Ocean geography: Caribbean
Type Locality: Mustique
Type Data: Holotype in MNHN
deposited and catalogued.
Type Size: 26.3mm
Nomenclature: an
available name
Taxonomy: A synonym of Conus
pseudaurantius Vink & Von Cosel, 1985
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Conus broderipii Reeve, 1844
Pictures:
Picture
Link: Holotype in NHMUK Mike Filmer
Published in: Conch.
Icon. I, Conus, pl. 46, sp. 254
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Moluccas
Type Data: Holotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 27 x 15 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Asprella Species:-broderipii
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Moluccas
Habitat:-Shallow subtidal to 20 m
Description:-Source Filmer Review
C. broderipii: spire is low in height and concave in
outline. The spire color is pale cream with axially aligned wavy mid-brown to
pale brown bars. The shoulder is angulate and smooth. The body whorl is shiny
and convex below the shoulder becoming almost straight thereafter. There are
irregular, incised spiral grooves at the base which become more widely
separated towards the centre. The ground color is cream with numerous spiral
lines of brown blotches dashes and spots coalescing into three bands below the
shoulder, above the centre and above the base. The interior of the aperture is
white on the outer edge and very pale pink to pale violet deep within.
The shells from the Philippines that were wrongly on the market as C. broderipii were renamed by Mike Filmer in 2011: C. zandbergeni Filmer, 2011.
Discussion:-
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Conus bruguieresi Kiener, 1845
Pictures:
Picture
Link: Holotype in collection Dupont Spec. Gen. Icon. des Coq.
Viv., pl. 56, f. 2
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Radula picture: Manuel Tenorio & Emilio Rolán
Published in: Spec.
Gen. Icon. des Coq. Viv., 2, p.
221, pl. 56, f. 2
Ocean geography: East Atlantic and West Africa
Type Locality: Designated Senegal.
Type Data: Holotype was in collection Dupont and currently assumed to be
lost
Type Size: 38 x 17 mm figure
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Lautoconus Species:-bruguieresi
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Senegal, West Africa
Habitat:-Shallow water
Description:-Source Pin and Tack
Shell biconical, consisting of 8 or 9 whorls. Shoulder narrow but well rounded.
Edges only slightly convex, are just a little narrowing towards the base. Spire
tall enough, with a very well marked suture. Aperture flaring towards the base.
Lip slightly encircling, more or less rounded upwards, and slightly sinuous
towards the inferior third, but almost straight on the whole. Towards the base,
there are about ten spiral evenly-spaced cords.
Against a constantly greenish background, a white band is visible along all the
periphery of the inferior third of the last whorl. Sometimes, below and above
this band, some small white spots are clearly visible; but in most cases only
the band is distinguishable. The whole surface of the last whorl is scrammed
with several violet dashes alternating with other white slightly larger dashes,
regularly spaced up to the shoulder. On the last whorl, below the suture, 2
small spiral cords are visible. Two cords are very evident on the penultimate
whorl. In uneroded specimens, the early whorls show few white spots, small and
regularly arranged.
The aperture is bluish interiorly, with a white fasciola towards the base. The
inner lip is bordered by a weak white band, followed by a larger purple one.
Discussion:-C. echinophilus is
close enough to C. bruguieresi, but
it differs from it especially for the colour of the animal, which is always
red, while in C. bruguieresi it is
rather greyish. The shell of C.
echinophilus is short, stocky, almost isosceles, while in C. bruguieresi it is always elongated
and narrow at the shoulder. The ornamentation of the last whorl is also
different: in C. echinophilus it is
dark brown, and in C. bruguieresi
greenish. The white and purple dashes, always present in C. bruguieresi, are only rarely present in C. echinophilus, and the white spots encircling the fasciole are by
far more consistent and always present in
C. echinophilus.
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Conus brunneobandatus Petuch, 1992
Pictures:
Picture
Link: Holotype in CMNH Alan Kohn
Published in: La
Conchiglia xxiii, no. 264, p. 37, figs. 3 & 4
Ocean geography: West Atlantic and Caribbean
Type Locality: Off Tobejuba Boca Araguao, Orinoco River Delta,
Venezuela; 25 m.
Type Data: Holotype in CMNH deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 28 x 15 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: According to Filmer a synonym colour form of Conus cancellatus Hwass in Bruguiere,
1792
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Conasprelloides Species:-cancellatus brunneobandatus forma
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Guyana, Brazil
Habitat:-On mud bottoms in 20-35 m. depths
Description:-Source original description
Shell distinctly turnip-shaped, with wide broad shoulder, deeply concave sides,
and narrow, tapering anterior end; shoulder sharply-angled, with well
developed, keel-like carina; spire elevated, slightly scalariform; body whorl
shiny, ornamented with 30-32 large, evenly-spaced spiral cords, giving shell
rough appearence; aperture narrow; body whorl white, encircled with continuous,
wide, light brown or tan band; brown band often encircles only midbody region,
but in some specimens (such as holotype) extends from shoulder to below
midbody; anterior tip of shell white; spire whorls white with scattered tan
flammules; protoconch and early whorls pale orange-tan; interior of aperture
white; periostracum thin, brown, velvety.
Discussion:-The author states that Conus brunneobandatus occurs with, and is most often misidentified
as Conus cancellatus Hwass, 1792.
This is smaller species with a more truncated, turnip-shaped body. The wide
brown band of this species C. cancellatus,
even in specimens with brown markings. The new species also has a much finer body
whorl sculpturing than does C.
cancellatus, with some specimens having virtually smooth shells devoid of
coarse spiral cords.
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Conus brunneofilaris Petuch, 1990
Pictures:
Picture
Link: Holotype in USNM Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Picture Link: Bill Fenzan
Published in: Nautilus.
104 (2), p. 66, f. 30-31
Ocean geography: West Atlantic and Caribbean
Type Locality: Off Portobelo, Panama.
Type Data: Holotype in USNM deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 14 x 7 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Gradiconus Species:-brunneofilaris
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-E. Panama
Habitat:-Around 65m depth
Description:-Source: Original description
Shell small, elongately conical, thin, fragile; shoulder sharply angled.
carinated; carina faintly undulating; spire moderately elevated, with stepped
whorls; body whorl shiny and polished; anterior tip encircled with 6 small
spiral cords; aperture narrow, slightly wider at anterior end; protoconch
proportionally large, mammillate; shell color bright golden-tan with wide
midbody band of large white patches and dark brown flammules; anterior tip
marked with large white flammules; golden-tan and white base color overlaid
with 21 extremely fine, hairlike, dark brown spiral lines; shoulder and spire
white with large, evenly-spaced, dark brown flammules; spire flammules extend
over edge of shoulder carina onto body whorl; interior of aperture white;
protoconch and early whorls bright yellow.
Discussion:-Conus brunneofilaris
with its distinct brown spiral lines, resembles no other known Caribbean or
Panamic cone shell.
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Conus brunneus Wood, 1828
Pictures:
Picture Link: Paul
Kersten
Radula Picture: Manuel Tenorio
Published in: Ind.
Test. Suppl., p. 8, pl. 3,
f. 1
Ocean geography: Eastern Pacific
Type Locality: Galapagos Islands
Type Data: A representative type figure has been recorded as: Wood, pl.
3, fig. 1
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Stephanoconus Species:-brunneus
Synonyms:- interruptus Wood, 1828
Geographic Range:-SW Baja California, Mexico - Ecuador; Galapagos
Habitat:-Found among sand and rocks from intertidal to 20 m
Description:-Source Walls
Heavy with a low gloss; obconic, the sides convex posteriorly; body whorl with
heavy basal ridges and numerous axial growth lines; shoulder broad, angulate,
heavily coronate, the coronations broad and sharp; spire low, straight/concave,
bluntly pointed; body whorl generally dark brown on white background showing
through in irregular patches at midbody and shoulder; numerous closely spaced
spiral lines of darker brown/black, broken into dashes, prominent in white
blotches; base dark violet brown, spire and shoulder white with brown blotches
between coronations; early whorls pinkish; aperture moderately wide, uniform;
outer lip straight, sharp; mouth waxy yellow grey; columella narrow, short, not
visible
Discussion:-C. bartschi has no
spiral cords but only very numerous spiral threads along the spire whorls while
C. brunneus has 3-6 well developed
spiral cords that persist throughout growth
C. diadema is similar but has waxy
feel, is uniformly olive/dark brown with narrow paler bands at
midbody/shoulder; seldom white blotches or dark lines; aperture pale violet
with dark violet patch posteriorly.
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Conus bruuni Powell, 1958
Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype
in ZMUC Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Published in: Rec.
Auckl. Inst. Mus. V., no. 1 &
2, p. 84, pl. 10, f. 3
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Off Raoul Is., Kermadec Is.; 75-85 m
Type Data: Holotype in ZMUC deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 43.6 x 21 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Asprella Species:-bruuni
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-New Caledonia - Kermadec Islands
Habitat:-In 60-400 m; in 60-85 m at Raoul Id.; in 200- 400 m at
Chesterfield Is. and north of New Caledonia
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Medium-sized, moderately solid. Last whorl conical; outline convex at adapical
half to three-fourths and straight (right side) or concave (left side) below.
Shoulder angulate. Spire of low to moderate height, outline straight to
slightly concave. Larval shell of about 3 whorls, maximum diameter about 1.2
mm. First 2.5-3 postnuclear whorls tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat
to slightly concave, with 3 increasing to 8-11 spiral grooves; latest ramps
with additional spiral striae. Last whorl with variably spaced, smooth spiral
ribs on basal fourth; juveniles with granulose ribs from base to shoulder.
Colour changes from pale yellow to light violet during growth. Last whorl with
pale orange to dark reddish brown clouds forming 2-3 spiral bands, well below
and just above centre and often below shoulder. Base and siphonal fasciole may
be lighter in colour. Larval shell pinkish grey. Early teleoconch sutural ramps
white; later ramps violet, with brown axial blotches producing tessellated
white and brown outer margins. Aperture matches exterior background in colour.
Shell Morphometry
L 35-61 mm
RW 0.12-0.32 g/mm
RD 0.55-0.66
PMD 0.84-0.91
RSH 0.10-0.18
Discussion:-C. bruuni is
similar to form calligunosis of C. kinoshitai, which can be separated by
its larger size, usually narrower last whorl and more numerous tuberculate
postnuclear whorls. In addition C. bruuni
has a wider larval shell and lacks the speckled appearance of C. kinoshitai.
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Conus bulbus Reeve, 1843
Pictures:
Picture Link: Lectotype
in NHMUK Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Radula Picture: Manuel Tenorio & Emilio Rolán
Published in: Conch.
Icon.. I, Conus, pl. 30, sp. 169, 1 pl.
30, sp. 169
Ocean geography: East Atlantic and West Africa
Type Locality: Cabenda, West coast of Africa, (soft mud, 5 fths),
(Hankey), erroneous designated (Rolán & Röckel) Binga Bay, Angola
Type Data: Lectotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 24 x 11 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Varioconus Species:-bulbus
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Angola; SW Africa
Habitat:-Intertidal Offshore
Description:-Source Iconography
The shell is small.and moderately light, the last whorl broadly and
ventricosely conical to pyriform, shoulder rounded. Outline convex at adapical
third, almost straight below. Spire low to moderately high, outline straight to
sigmoid. Sutural ramps flat to convex with fine spiral striae. Last whorl
almost smooth, with about 10 spiral ribs near base. Ground color of the shell
is white to bluish-white, with dark brown axial streaks, of variable width,
occasionally converging at base and shoulder. Light colored aperture.
Discussion:-C. zebroides is
the species most similar to C. bulbus
because of the presence of dark axial streaks on the shell, and in fact some
specimens can hardly be seperated between the two species, except for the fact
that C. zebroides reaches quite
larger size. The two species are separated in terms of the radular teeth.
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Conus bullatus Linnaeus, 1758
Pictures:
Picture Link: Neotype
in ZIUU Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Radula Picture: Manuel Tenorio
Published in: Systema
Naturae 10th ed., 1, p. 717
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Type locality not known, designated (C, M & W) Island
of Amboina, (Ambon, Indonesia), neotype locality not mentioned.
Type Data: Neotype in ZIUU deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 59 x 30 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Textilia Species:-bullatus
Synonyms:- nubecula Gmelin, 1791; laganum Röding, 1798; parvus Röding, 1798; articulata Dautzenberg, 1937; pongo Shikamai & Oishi, 1977
Geographic Range:-Mozambique and Zanzibar to Marquesas and Hawaii
Habitat:-Intertidal to about 240 m, most common from slightly subtidal
to 50 m; on muddy sand, coral rubble and gravel, often beneath dead coral
rocks, outside and inside the reef. Form pongo reported from slightly subtidal
to about 20 m. Common form of C. bullatus known to feed on fishes and mollusks
after nightfall and to be preyed upon by skates and stingrays as well as
molluscivorous Conidae.
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Medium-sized to large, moderately solid to solid. Last whorl ovate to narrowly
ovate; outline convex, less so or straight at adapical fourth and towards base;
left side may be concave near base; sometimes sides nearly parallel centrally.
Aperture distinctly wider at base than near shoulder. Shoulder subangulate to
angulate or slightly carinate. Spire low, outline either concave, with apex
projecting from an otherwise almost flat spire, or straight. Larval shell of
3-3.5 whorls, maximum diameter 0.9-1.0 mm. First 3-6 postnuclear whorls tuberculate,
later whorls sometimes slightly carinate. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat,
concave in late whorls, with 1 increasing to 2-4 spiral grooves that are weak
in latest whorls. Last whorl with a few weak narrow spiral grooves at base.
Ground colour white, variably suffused with orange to violet. Last whorl with
spiral rows of orangish to reddish brown dots, dashes, bars and spots that
alternate irregularly with white dots and often with triangular spots in some
rows. Areas between usually with an incomplete to regular network of less
prominent, orangish to reddish brown tent-like spots. Similarly coloured
blotches also form interrupted spiral bands, within abapical third, above
centre and sometimes below shoulder. Fine reddish brown axial lines may extend
from shoulder to base. Form pongo usually lacks reticulated triangular spots
but has more prominent fine white axial lines; some specimens are irregularly
clouded with orangish to reddish brown. Larval whorls and adjacent 2
postnuclear sutural ramps light red. Later sutural ramps with orangish to
reddish brown radial streaks and blotches, often fusing in late whorls. In
common form, aperture beige marginally, yellow-orange deep within; in form pongo, aperture orange-brown marginally,
dark brown-red deeper within.
Shell Morphometry
L 45-82 mm
RW 0.17-0.52 g/mm
(L 45-68 mm)
RD 0.47-0.60
PMD 0.60-0.74
RSH 0.02-0.10
Discussion:-
Form C. b. pongo E. Africa to W. Thailand lacks
reticulated triangular spots but has prominent fine white axial lines.
Conus bullatus f. pongo Shikamai
& Oishi, 1977
Pictures:
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Published in: Sci.
Rep. Yokohama natn. Univ. sect. 2 (24), p.21, pl. 4, figs 5a-b
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: East China Sea
Type Data: Holotype was in KPMY and currently assumed to be lost
Type Size: 64 x 28.2 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus
bullatus Linnaeus, 1758
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Textilia Species:-bullatus pongo forma
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-East China Sea (Indian Ocean?)
Habitat:-Slightly subtidal to about 20 m
Description:- Aperture color reddish brown
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Conus buniatus Bozzetti, 2013
Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in Collection
Bozzetti
Published in: Malacologia
78, p. 11, fig.
Ocean geography: West Pacific
Type Locality: Lavanono, Southern Madagascar
Type Data: Holotype in the author’s collection
Type Size: 15,50 mm x 8.7 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Rolaniconus Species:-buniatus
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Only known from the type locality
Habitat:-
Description:-Original description
Ventricosely conical shape, spire low with concave outline, slightly turreted,
shoulder angulate, body whorl convex on right side, very slightly concave at
the base and convex above on left side, teleoconch whorls strongly tuberculated
at the shoulder; body whorl covered by 18 spiral, pustulose ribs and thick,
thin axial growth lines; shell completely white.
Discussion:-No Data
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Conus burryae Clench, 1942
Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in MCZ
Mike Filmer
Published in: Johnsonia
1, p. 29, pl. 14, f. 3 & 4
Ocean geography: West Atlantic and Caribbean
Type Locality: Off Lower Matecumbe Key, Lower Florida Keys
Type Data: Holotype in MCZ deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 34.5 x 16 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Subspecies of Conus
anabathrum Crosse, 1865
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Gradiconus Species:-anabathrum burryae subsp.
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Lower Florida Keys and Biscayne Bay (along the coast
of Yucatan, Mexico)
Habitat:-On grassy mud flats
Description:-Source Vink C. anabathrum
C. a. burryae differs from typical C. anabathrum in being reddish brown to
dark brown, usually in blotches but also uniform. The spiral rows of darker
dashes often become continuous spiral lines. A white mid-body area can no
longer be distinguished, the tip of the base is usually brownish black. There
are also morphological differences, C.anabathrum
burryae is smaller and narrower with often a more convex body whorl.
Discussion:-No Data
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Conus byssinus Röding, 1798
Pictures:
Picture Link: Representation of Lectotype in Martini (1773, pl. 60, fig. 669)
Picture Link: Paul Kersten
Published in: Mus. Bolten 2, p. 41, no 518/40, not figured
Ocean geography: East Atlantic and West Africa
Type Locality: Not mentioned, designated (Coomans, Moolenbeek & Wils) Villa Cisneros, Western Sahara
Type Size: 65 x 42 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A subspecies of Conus pulcher
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Kalloconus Species:-pulcher byssinus
Geographic Range:- West Africa
Habitat:-Shallow Water
Description:-Source Iconography: The shell is similar to that of Conus pulcher but more cylindrical, with a stocky profile. It is more brightly colored, presenting solid brownish spiral lines on the body whorl, on which the white background color is usually predominant. The brown markings tend to be darker, more clearly defined and thicker, even in the shape of small rectangles.
Discussion:-No Data
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