Conus marmoreus

Scientific Name:-

Conus marmoreus

Common Name:-

Marbled cone

Malayalam Name:-

Category:-

Mollusca

Status:-

Least concern category of IUCN Photo courtesy: Scienceandstory.blogspot.in

Description:-

Shell moderately large; solid heavy, elegant; shoulder angulate with prominent tuberculations; spire compressed; apex bluntly pointed; body whorl conical with almost straight sides; scultptured with fine spiral ridges towards the base; surface ornamented with regular pattern of black lines and triangular blotches outlining uniform white tents; aperture white

Threats:-

Not reported

Remark:-

Franklin and Laladhas (2014) recorded it from Kerala coast.

Habitat:-

Inter tidal; shallow sub tidal; coral reef; sandy substrates

Synonyms:-

Conus crosseanus Bernardi, 1861 (a form of Conus marmoreus)
Conus crosseanus var. lineata Crosse, 1878 (invalid: junior homonym of Conus lineatus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792)
Conus maculatus Perry, 1811 (invalid: junior homonym of Conus maculatus Bosc, 1801)
Conus marmoreus var. granulatus G. B. Sowerby I, 1839 (invalid: junior homonym of Conus granulatus Linnaeus, 1758)
Conus pseudomarmoreus Crosse, 1875
Conus suffusus G. B. Sowerby II, 1870
Conus suffusus var. noumeensis Crosse, 1872
Cucullus proarchithalassus Röding, 1798

References:-

Franklin, J.B. and Laladhas, K.P. 2014. Marine Gastropods of Kerala. Kerala State Biodiversity Board, Thiruvananthapuram, India, 186pp.

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