Conus sydneyensis
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| Conus sydneyensis | |
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| Apertural and abapertural views of shell of Conus sydneyensis Sowerby, G.B. III, 1887 | |
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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. sydneyensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Conus sydneyensis G. B. Sowerby III, 1887
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Conus sydneyensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1]
Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should not be handled at all, except by qualified federal animal control personnel.
Description
The size of the shell varies between 21 mm and 50 mm. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Conus sydneyensis G. B. Sowerby III, 1887. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 March 2010.
- Sowerby, G.B. (3rd) 1887. Thesaurus Conchyliorum. Supplements to the Monograph of Conus and Voluta. Vol. 5 249-279, pls 29-36.
- Röckel, D., Korn, W. & Kohn, A.J. 1995. Manual of the Living Conidae. Volume 1: Indo-Pacific Region. Wiesbaden : Hemmen 517 pp.
- Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218
- 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
External links
- The Conus Biodiversity website
- Cone Shells - Knights of the Sea
- Gastropods.com: Austroconus sydneyensis
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