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Conus lyelli

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| taxon = Conus lyelli

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| image_caption = Several shells of Conus lyelli; the colored specimens are reversed images of specimens photographed under UV light; the two specimens below right are specimens of Conus xenicus Pilsbry and Johnson, 1917

| status = EX

| authority = Hendricks, 2015

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Conus lyelli 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 lyelli. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=843130 on 2015-10-24

Description

The size of the shell attains 29.4 mm. Conus lyelli shows tubercles on all postnuclear whorls. This species is different from any known extant species. This suggests that it, along with Conus xenicus, may be members of an extinct clade of cone snails.

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Distribution

This marine species is only known in the fossil state from 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]

External links

  • [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=843130 To World Register of Marine Species]

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lyelli

Category:Fossil taxa described in 2015

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