Biology:Conus humerosus

Short description: Species of Gastropoda

Conus humerosus
Drawing of a shell of Conus humerosus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Conidae
Genus:	Conus
Species:	C. humerosus
Binomial name
Conus humerosus Pilsbry, 1921
Synonyms
† Conus (Spuriconus) humerosus Pilsbry, 1921 · accepted, alternate representation † Conus proteus humerosus Pilsbry, 1921 (original rank)

Conus humerosus is a fossil species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

Description

The size of the shell attains 65 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is only found as a fossil in the Neogene of the Dominican Republic.

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

• 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

• To World Register of Marine Species

Wikidata ☰ Q22286148 entry