Conus anningae

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| taxon = Conus anningae

| status = EX

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| image_caption = Several shell specimens of Conus anningae

| authority = Hendricks, 2015

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Conus anningae is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.Bouchet, P. (2015). Conus anningae Hendricks, 2015 †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=843129 on 2015-06-29{{Cite journal |last=Hendricks |first=Jonathan R. |date=2015-04-01 |title=Glowing Seashells: Diversity of Fossilized Coloration Patterns on Coral Reef-Associated Cone Snail (Gastropoda: Conidae) Shells from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=e0120924 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0120924 |doi-access=free |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=4382297 |pmid=25830769|bibcode=2015PLoSO..1020924H }}

Description

The size of the shell attains 30 mm.

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Distribution

This species is only known as a fossil from the lower Pliocene Gurabo Formation in the Dominican Republic.{{Cite web |title=Conus anningae Hendricks sp. |url=https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/detailedresult?img=PMC4382297_pone.0120924.g010&query=ALL&coll=none&uniq=1&req=4&simResults=PMC4155188_jvms-76-1093-g001 |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=openi.nlm.nih.gov}}

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