Conus echo
{{Short description|Species of sea snail}}
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| authority =Lauer, 1989
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
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- Conus (Darioconus) echo Lauer, 1989 · accepted, alternate representation
- Conus pennaceus echo Lauer, 1988
- Conus pennaceus f. echo Maccà, 1988 (unavailable name: established as a form)
- Darioconus echo (Lauer, 1989)
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Conus echo is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.Bouchet, P. (2015). Conus echo. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=751875 on 2015-09-15
These snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of stinging humans.
Description
The size of the shell varies between 38 mm and 69 mm.
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Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Somalia.
References
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- Filmer R.M. (2001). A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758 - 1998. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 388pp.
- [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
- [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=751875 To World Register of Marine Species]
- [http://www.coneshells-am.ru/ Cone Shells - Knights of the Sea]
- {{Gastropods.com|key=4|id=5094|title=Darioconus echo|access-date=15 January 2019}}
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Category:Endemic fauna of Somalia
Category:Gastropods described in 1989
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