Conus dianthus
Conus dianthus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.[1]
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| Two views of a shell of Conus dianthus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Conus |
| Species: | C. dianthus |
| Binomial name | |
| Conus dianthus G. B. Sowerby III, 1882 | |
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These snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans.
Description
The size of the shell varies between 22 mm and 28 mm. The shell is rather abbreviately conical, pale pink, with irregular patches of orange. It shows rather distant revolving ridges and faint longitudinal striae, undulating across the ribs and forming thereon minute scales. The body whorl is obscurely coronated. The aperture is pink within.[2]
References
- Bouchet, P. (2015). Conus dianthus. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=429439 on 2015-09-11
- G.W. Tryon(1884) Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
- Sowerby, G.B. Jr. (1882). Descriptions of new Species of Shells in the Collection of Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1882): 117-121
- 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
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