Conus barbara
| Conus barbara | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Conus barbara | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Conus |
| Species: | C. barbara |
| Binomial name | |
| Conus barbara Brazier, 1898 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Conus barbara is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.[1]
These snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of stinging humans.
Description
[edit]The size of the shell varies between 20 mm and 40 mm.
(Original description) The shell is elongated and subcylindrical with a turbinated shape. Its smooth, white surface is sporadically mottled with bluish-brown patches and adorned with spiral patterns of interrupted brown dots and opaque white lines. The spire is obtuse, consisting of eight whorls separated by a narrow suture that features three deep spiral grooves. While the base is deeply grooved and finely punctured, the aperture remains very narrow at the posterior end before widening toward the anterior. The peristome is slightly angled, revealing a bluish-white interior.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off Western Australia and the Solomon Islands.
References
[edit]- 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2015). Conus barbara Brazier, 1898. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=429319 on 2015-10-24
- ↑ Brazier, J. (1898). "New marine shells from the Solomon Islands and Australia". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 22: 781. Retrieved 29 March 2026.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Monnier E., Limpalaër L. & Robin A. (2013) Revision of the Pionoconus achatinus complex. Description of three new species: P. koukae n. sp. from Oman, P. arafurensis n. sp. from northern Australia and P. rouxi n. sp. from Western Australia. Xenophora Taxonomy 1: 3-39.
- Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2013) Illustrated catalog of the living cone shells. 517 pp. Wellington, Florida: MdM Publishing.
External links
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- To World Register of Marine Species
- Cone Shells - Knights of the Sea
- "Pionoconus barbara". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.