Conus magnificus

Short description: Species of sea snail

Conus magnificus

Apertural and abapertural views of shell of Conus magnificus Reeve, L.A., 1843
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Neogastropoda
Superfamily:  | Conoidea
Family:  | Conidae
Genus:  | Conus
Species:  |

C. magnificus

Binomial name
Conus magnificus

Reeve, 1843

Synonyms[1]

* Conus (Darioconus) magnificus Reeve, 1843 · accepted, alternate representation
* Darioconus magnificus (Reeve, 1843)

Conus magnificus, common name the "magnificent cone", is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.[1]

The subspecies Conus magnificus macilentus Lauer, 1989is a synonym of Conus episcopatus da Motta, 1982

## Contents

* 1 Distribution
* 2 Shell description
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Distribution

This is a marine Indo-Pacific species, excluding Hawaii; also off Australia (Queensland).
Common in Vietnam and Southeast Asia,
but rare in French Polynesia and in the Northern Red Sea.

## Shell description

The size of the shell varies between 55 mm and 92 mm. The shell is intricately marked with a white ground color overlaid with brown to red brown.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bouchet, P. (2015). Conus magnificus. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215551 on 2015-10-25

* Reeve, L.A. 1843. Monograph of the genus Conus. pls 1-39 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologica Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 1.
* Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the Central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp.
* Salvat, B. & Rives, C. 1975. Coquillages de Polynésie. Tahiti : Papéete Les editions du pacifique, pp. 1–391.
* Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific Marine Shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls.
* Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
* Röckel, D., Korn, W. & Kohn, A.J. 1995. Manual of the Living Conidae. Volume 1: Indo-Pacific Region. Wiesbaden : Hemmen 517 pp.
* Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 296 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

* Conus magnificus - A picture of the shell of this species.
* Cone Shells - Knights of the Sea
* "Darioconus magnificus" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/2/Shell_5092.shtml.

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