Conus lucaya
{{short description|Species of sea snail}}
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| authority = Petuch, 2000
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- Conus (Dauciconus) lucaya Petuch, 2000 · accepted, alternate representation
- Purpuriconus lucaya (Petuch, 2000)
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Conus lucaya 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 lucaya. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=429052 on 2015-10-23
These snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of stinging humans.
Description
The size of the shell grows to a length of 28 mm.
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Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Bahamas.
References
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- Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2013) Illustrated catalog of the living cone shells. 517 pp. Wellington, Florida: MdM Publishing.
- [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=429052 To World Register of Marine Species]
- [http://www.coneshells-am.ru/ Cone Shells - Knights of the Sea]
- {{Gastropods.com|key=1|id=10051|title=Poremskiconus abrolhosensis|access-date=16 January 2019}}
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Category:Gastropods described in 2000
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