Conus fragilissimus
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| Apertural and abapertural views of shell of Conus fragilissimus Petuch, E.J., 1979 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Conus |
| Species: | C. fragilissimus
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| Binomial name | |
| Conus fragilissimus Petuch, 1979
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Conus fragilissimus, common name the fragile geography cone, is a species of
Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are
Description
Original description: "Shell extremely thin, fragile, translucent, glossy; outline ovately cylindrical; sides convex, tapering to the anterior end; shoulder wide, angled, with prominent coronations; spire high, stepped, somewhat scalariform; spire sculpture consisting of 4-6 fine revolving spiral threads; aperture wide, flaring; color pale tan with longitudinal brown flammules, flammules often coalescing into large brown patches; base color pattern overlaid with variable amounts of dots, dashes, and netlike pattern; spire color pale tan with regularly spaced dark brown flammules; protoconch and early whorls dark brown; shoulder coronations white; aperture white; periostracum smooth, translucent yellow; operculum unknown."[2]
The size of the shell varies between 26 mm and 50 mm.
Distribution
Locus typicus: "3 metres depth, off South coast of Harmil Isl.,
Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea Province, Ethiopia."[3]
This species occurs in the Red Sea and off Ethiopia.
Etymology
"In reference to the almost paper thinness of the shell."[3]
References
- ^ a b Conus fragilissimus Petuch, 1979. WoRMS (2010). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 September 2011.
- ^ Petuch, E.J. 1979-Twelve new Indo-Pacific gastropods, Nemouria Vol. 23, page 16
- ^ a b Petuch, E.J. 1979-Twelve new Indo-Pacific gastropods, Nemouria Vol. 23, page 16.
- Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 296 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
- "Gastridium fragilissimus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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