Biology:Conasprella insculpta

Short description: Species of gastropod

Conasprella insculpta
Apertural and abapertural views of shell of Conasprella insculpta Kiener, L.C., 1845
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Conidae
Genus:	Conasprella
Species:	C. insculpta
Binomial name
Conasprella insculpta (Kiener, 1847)
Synonyms
Bathyconus hypochlorus (Tomlin, 1937) Bathyconus insculptus (Kiener, 1847) Conasprella (Fusiconus) hypochlorus (Tomlin, 1937) Conasprella (Fusiconus) insculpta (Kiener, 1847) · accepted, alternate representation Conasprella hypochlorus (Tomlin, 1937) Conus croceus E. A. Smith, 1877 (invalid: junior homonym of Conus croceus G.B. Sowerby I, 1833; C. hypochlorus is a replacement name) Conus hypochlorus Tomlin, 1937 Conus insculptus Kiener, 1847 (original combination) Fusiconus (Fusiconus) insculptus (Kiener, 1847)

Conasprella insculpta, common name the engraved cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

Like all species within the genus Conasprella, these cone snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.

Description

The size of the shell varies between 18 mm and 66 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Western Thailand; Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines , the South China Sea, Taiwan and off the Northern Territory, Australia.

References

• Kiener, L.C. 1845. Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Rousseau et Baillière Vol. 2.
• Reeve, L.A. 1849. Monograph of the genus Conus. pls 4–9 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 1.
• Shuto, T. 1969. Neogene gastropods from Panay Island, the Philippines. Memoires of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University 19(1): 1–250
• Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the Central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp.
• Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls
• Röckel, D., Korn, W. & Kohn, A.J. 1995. Manual of the Living Conidae. Volume 1: Indo-Pacific Region. Wiesbaden : Hemmen 517 pp.
• 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
• "Bathyconus insculptus" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/2/Shell_4932.shtml. 
• Syntype in MNHN, Paris

Wikidata ☰ Q1308414 entry