Conus kinoshitai

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| taxon = Conus kinoshitai

| image = Conus kinoshitai 001.jpg

| image_caption = Apertural view of Conus kinoshitai

| authority = (Kuroda, 1956)Kuroda, T., 1956. New species of the Conidae (Gastropoda). Venus, 19 (1 ): 1 -16

| synonyms_ref = {{WRMS species|429066|Conus kinoshitai (Kuroda, 1956)||27 March 2010}}

| synonyms =

Afonsoconus kinoshitai (Kuroda, 1956) ·
Asprella kinoshitai (Kuroda, 1956)
Conus (Afonsoconus) kinoshitai (Kuroda, 1956) accepted, alternate representation
Chelyconus kinoshitai Kuroda, 1956 (original combination)
Conus brontodes Shikama, 1979
Conus (Strioconus) brontodes Shikama, T., 1979
Conus kinoshitai f. calliginosus Shikama, 1979 (unavailable name: established as a form after 1960)
Conus kinoshitai f. tamikoana Shikama, 1979 (unjustified emendation of Conus tamikoae Shikama, 1973)
Conus (Embrikena) kinoshitai "calliginosus" Shikama, T., 1979
Conus tamikoae Shikama, 1973

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Conus kinoshitai, common name Kinoshita's cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

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 an adult shell varies between 40 mm and 100 mm.

This species occurs in the South China Sea and in the Pacific Ocean from the Philippines to the Solomons. There are also records in the Indian Ocean from Mozambique, Madagascar, and Réunion.

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]

[http://biology.burke.washington.edu/conus/catalogue/index.php The Conus Biodiversity website]
{{Gastropods.com|key=8|id=3928|title=Afonsoconus kinoshitai|access-date=16 January 2019}}
[http://www.coneshells-am.ru/ Cone Shells – Knights of the Sea]
[https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/603/1389 Manuel J. Tenorio, Eric Monnier & Nicolas Puillandre - Notes on Afonsoconus Tucker & Tenorio, 2013 (Gastropoda, Conidae), with description of a new species from the Southwestern Indian Ocean; European Journal of Taxonomy 472: 1–20, 2018]