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Conus abbas

{{Short description|Species of sea snail}}

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| taxon = Conus abbas

| image = Conus abbas 1.jpg

| image2 = Conus abbas 2.jpg

| image2_caption = Apertural and abapertural views of shell of Conus abbas

| status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = Kohn A. (2013). [http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/192359/0 "Conus abbas"]. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. . Downloaded on 04 August 2014.

| authority = Hwass in Bruguière, 1792

| synonyms_ref = {{WRMS species|215480|Conus abbas Hwass in Bruguière, 1792||20 March 2010}}

| synonyms =

  • Conus (Cylinder) abbas Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Conus abbas var. grisea Dautzenberg, 1937
  • Cylinder abbas (Hwass in Bruguière, 1792)

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Conus abbas, common name the abbas 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 Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of stinging humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully.

Description

The shell of this species is white, very finely reticulated with narrow orange-brown lines, with a broad central and often narrower upper and lower bands of darker color bearing occasional longitudinal chocolate stripes.

The height of the shell is from {{convert|1.5|in}} to {{convert|2.5|in}}.

The shell is very similar to that of Conus textile, but the shell is smaller, the reticulations much smaller, the longitudinal streaks rarely

apparent, and the dark bands of Conus abbas occupy about the same positions as the lightest markings of Conus textile.

Distribution

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  • Distribution after Tryon (1884): East Africa, Ceylon, Philippines, New Caledonia.
  • Distribution after Conus Biodiversity website: from South India and Sri Lanka to Java and Bali in Indonesia.[http://biology.burke.washington.edu/conus/recordview/record.php?ID=1l9l&tabs=11100111&frms=1&res=speclst&pglimit=A "Conus abbas Hwass in Bruguière, 1792."]. The Conus Biodiversity website, accessed 21 March 2010.
  • Madagascar

Ecology

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.

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.Tryon G. W. (1884). Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Volume 6. Conidae, Pleurotomidae. page [https://archive.org/stream/manualconch06tryorich#page/92/mode/1up/ 92]. [https://archive.org/stream/manualconch06tryorich#page/473/mode/1up Plate 30], figure 12-14.

{{Reflist}}

  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
  • 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
  • [https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyu055 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

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  • [http://biology.burke.washington.edu/conus/catalogue/index.php The Conus Biodiversity website]
  • [http://www.coneshells-am.ru/ Cone Shells - Knights of the Sea]
  • {{Gastropods.com|key=3|id=583|title=Pionoconus aurisiacus|access-date=15 January 2019}}

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Category:Gastropods described in 1792