Conus humerosus
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| Conus humerosus | |
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| File:Conus humerosus 001.jpg | |
| Drawing of a shell of Conus humerosus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Conus |
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C. humerosus
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| Conus humerosus Pilsbry, 1921
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Conus humerosus is a fossil species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.[1]
Description
The size of the shell attains 65 mm. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Distribution
This marine species is only found as a fossil in the Neogene of the Dominican Republic.
File:Conus humerosus 002.jpg
Conus humerosus; Correspondence between oxidation of the shell, fluorescence under UV light, and effects of digitally reversing the image of the fluorescing shell using photoediting software
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bouchet, P. (2015). Conus humerosus. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=843183 on 2015-10-07
- Pilsbry, .Revision of W. M. Gabb's Tertiary Mollusca of Santo Domingo; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 73 (1921)
- Hendricks J.R. (2015). Glowing seashells: diversity of fossilized coloration patterns on coral reef-associated cone snail (Gastropoda: Conidae) shells from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic. PLoS ONE. 10(4): e0120924
External links
| External identifiers for Conus humerosus | |
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| WoRMS | 843186 |
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