Conus bullatus
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| Five views of a shell of Conus bullatus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Subfamily: | Coninae |
| Genus: | Conus |
| Species: | C. bullatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Conus bullatus Linnaeus, 1758 [1] | |
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Conus bullatus, common name the bubble cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[2]
Like all species within the genus Conus, these 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 an adult shell varies between 42 mm and 82 mm. The thin shell is inflated and grooved below. The color of the shell is white, clouded with orange-red and chestnut, forming two ill-defined bands, with indistinct revolving rows of white and chestnut articulations. The aperture is pink.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin[2] and Mauritius;[2] in the Indo-West Pacific (the Philippines, New Caledonia)
References
- ↑ Linnaeus, C., 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, 10th ed., 1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Conus bullatus Linnaeus, 1758. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 July 2011.
- ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology, vol. VI, p. 87; 1879
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
- Filmer R.M. (2001). A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758 - 1998. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 388pp.
- Tucker J.K. (2009). Recent cone species database. September 4, 2009 Edition
- Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 296 pp
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Conus bullatus. |
- The Conus Biodiversity website
- Hu H., Bandyopadhyay P. K., Olivera B. M. & Yandell M. (2011). "Characterization of the Conus bullatus genome and its venom-duct transcriptome". BMC Genomics 12: 60. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-12-60.
- Ul-Hasan S, Burgess DM, Gajewiak J, Li Q, Hu H, Yandell M, Olivera BM, Bandyopadhyay PK. (2013). "Characterization of the peptidylglycine α-amidating monooxygenase (PAM) from the venom ducts of neogastropods Conus bullatus and Conus geographus." Toxicon 74: 215-224. PMID: 23994590
- Gastropods.com: Textilia bullatus; accessed : 13 July 2011
- Cone Shells - Knights of the Sea
Gallery
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Conus bullatus Linnaeus, C., 1758
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Conus bullatus Linnaeus, C., 1758
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Conus bullatus Linnaeus, C., 1758
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Conus bullatus Linnaeus, C., 1758