Conus ammiralis

Conus ammiralis, common name the admiral cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[2]

Conus ammiralis
Apertural and abapertural views of shell of Conus ammiralis Linnaeus, C., 1758
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Conidae
Genus:	Conus
Species:	C. ammiralis
Binomial name
Conus ammiralis Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[2]
Conus (Cylinder) ammiralis Linnaeus, 1758 accepted, alternate representation Conus ammiralis pseudocedonulli Blainville, 1818 Conus ammiralis var. archithalassus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 Conus ammiralis var. australis Dautzenberg, 1937 Conus ammiralis var. coronatus Gmelin, 1791 Conus ammiralis var. crebrimaculata Dautzenberg, 1937 Conus ammiralis var. donovani Dautzenberg, 1937 Conus ammiralis var. extraordinarius Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 Conus ammiralis var. larvatus Gmelin, 1791 Conus ammiralis var. occidentalis Linnaeus, 1758 Conus ammiralis var. ordinarius Linnaeus, 1758 Conus ammiralis var. palinurus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 Conus ammiralis var. personatus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 Conus ammiralis var. polyzonus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 Conus ammiralis var. summus Linnaeus, 1758 Conus ammiralis var. trifasciata Spalowsky, 1795 Conus architalassus Lightfoot, 1786 Conus blainvillii Vignard, 1829 Conus hereditarius da Motta, 1987 Conus textile var. abbreviata Dautzenberg, 1937 Conus vicarius Linnaeus, 1767 Conus vicarius Lamarck, 1810 (invalid: junior homonym of Conus vicarius Linnaeus, 1767; Conus textile var. abbreviata Dautzenberg, 1937, is a replacement name) Cucullus granulatus Röding, 1798 Cucullus imperialis Röding, 1798 Cucullus petreus Röding, 1798 Cucullus princeps Röding, 1798 Cucullus summus Röding, 1798 Leptoconus ammiralis Linnaeus, 1758 Leptoconus ammiralis temnes Iredale, 1930 Leptoconus temnes Iredale, 1930

Like all species within the genus Conus, 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 the shell varies between 35 mm and 109 mm. The color is the shell is chestnut with darker revolving lines, and upper, basal and one or two approximate bands, finely reticulated with yellow on a white ground. This pattern is overlaid with large, irregularly disposed triangular white spots.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and the Mascarenes; in the Indo-West Pacific off Fiji, Indo-China, Indo-Malaysia, the Marshall Islands, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, Thailand, Vanuatu and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)

References

1. NatureServe (2013). "Conus ammiralis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url
2. Conus ammiralis Linnaeus, 1758. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 March 2010.
3. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences

• Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp
• Bruguière, M. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 1 i–xviii, 757 pp
• Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp.
• Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1810. Suite des espèces du genre Cône. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 15: 263–286, 422–442
• Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the Western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls.
• Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian Shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp.
• Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls.
• Röckel, D., Korn, W. & Kohn, A.J. 1995. Manual of the Living Conidae. Volume 1: Indo-Pacific Region. Wiesbaden : Hemmen 517 pp.
• 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

• The Conus Biodiversity website
• Cone Shells – Knights of the Sea
• "Leptoconus ammiralis ammiralis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.

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  Conus ammiralis Linnaeus, C., 1758
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  Conus ammiralis Linnaeus, C., 1758