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Conus australis

{{short description|Species of sea snail}}

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| taxon = Conus australis

| image = Conus australis 1.jpg

| image2 = Conus australis 2.jpg

| image_caption = Apertural and abapertural views of shell of Conus australis Holten, H.S., 1802

| authority = (Holten, 1802)

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Kohn, A. | date=2013 |title=Conus australis |volume=2013 |page=e.T192291A2066608|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T192291A2066608.en |access-date=10 April 2024}}

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  • Asprella alabasteroides Shikama, 1963
  • Asprella australis Holten, 1802
  • Conus armadillo gabryae L. Raybaudi, 1989
  • Conus australis Lamarck, 1810
  • Conus cebuganus da Motta & Martin, 1982
  • Conus duplicatus G. B. Sowerby I, 1823
  • Conus gabryae Röckel & Korn, 1992
  • Conus gracilis G.B. Sowerby I, 1823
  • Conus patamakanthini Delsaerdt, 1998
  • Conus strigatus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 (identity doubtful; treated by some authors as a )
  • Conus (Phasmoconus) australis Holten, 1802 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Graphiconus australis (Holten, 1802)

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Conus australis, common name the austral cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.{{WRMS species|430463|Conus australis (Holten, 1802)||27 March 2010}}

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 the shell varies between 40 mm and 123 mm. The shell is distantly channeled throughout. The interstices are usually plane, sometimes minutely granular. The channels are narrow and longitudinally striated. The spire is much elevated, acuminated, striate, sometimes obscurely minutely coronated. The color of the shell is yellowish brown, with light chestnut longitudinal short irregular lines, and clouds of the same color forming three obscure interrupted bands.[https://archive.org/details/manualconch06tryorich G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan and in the South China Sea; also off New Caledonia and the Philippines.

References

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  • Raybaudi Massilia L. (1989) Conidae: una nuova sottospecie dalle Isole Solomone Conus (Asprella) armadillo gabryae subspecies nova. The Connoisseur of Seashells 23
  • 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.
  • Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.
  • [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=6|id=586|title=Graphiconus australis|access-date=15 January 2019}}

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Category:Gastropods described in 1802

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