Conus lombardii

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| taxon = Conus lombardii

| status = EX

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| image_caption = Several shells of Conus lombardii; the colored are reversed images of specimens photographed under UV light. Scale bar is 1 cm and pertains to all images.

| authority = Hendricks, 2015

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  • Conus (Spuriconus) lombardii Hendricks, 2015 · accepted, alternate representation

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Conus lombardii 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 lombardii. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=843188 on 2015-10-22

Description

The size of the shell attains 29.5 mm. It is similar to Conus kaesleri and Conus spurius

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Distribution

This marine species of cone snail is known only in the fossil state in the Neogene of the Dominican Republic.

References

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  • [https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120924 Hendricks J.R. (2015). Glowing seashells: diversity of fossilized coloration patterns on coral reef-associated cone snail (Gastropoda: Conidae) shells from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic. PLoS ONE. 10(4): e0120924]