Conus cepasi
Conus cepasi | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
Clade: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Conidae |
Genus: | Conus |
Species: | C. cepasi |
Binomial name | |
Conus cepasi Trovão, H., 1975 [1] | |
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Conus cepasi is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, known as the cone snails, cone shells or cones. [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.
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Conus cepasi Trovão, H., 1975
Description
The size of the shell varies between 25 mm and 50 mm.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Angola, Africa.
External links
References
- ↑ Trovão, H. F. M., 1975. Contribuição para o estudo dos Molluscos Gasterópodes da familia Conidae de Angola. Duas novas espécies de Conus Linné, 1758 de Angola (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Boletim do Centro Português de Actividades Subaquáticas, 4 (1 ): 1 -8
- 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2015). Conus cepasi. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=405000 on 2015-08-29
- Bouchet, P. 1996. Conus cepasi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
- Rolán E. & Röckel D. 2000. The endemic Conus of Angola. Argonauta 13(2): 5-44, 150 figs.
- 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
- 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
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