Conus humerosus

Species of Gastropoda

Conus humerosus

Drawing of a shell of Conus humerosus
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Neogastropoda
Superfamily:  | Conoidea
Family:  | Conidae
Genus:  | Conus
Species:  |

C. humerosus

Binomial name
Conus humerosus

Pilsbry, 1921

Synonyms[1]

* † Conus (Spuriconus) humerosus Pilsbry, 1921 · accepted, alternate representation
* † Conus proteus humerosus Pilsbry, 1921 (original rank)

Conus humerosus is a fossil species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.[1]

## Description

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The size of the shell attains 65 mm.

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## Distribution

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This marine species is only found as a fossil in the Neogene of the Dominican Republic.

Conus humerosus; Correspondence between oxidation of the shell, fluorescence under UV light, and effects of digitally reversing the image of the fluorescing shell using photoediting software

## References

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1. ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2015). Conus humerosus. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=843183 on 2015-10-07

* Pilsbry, .Revision of W. M. Gabb's Tertiary Mollusca of Santo Domingo; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 73 (1921)
* Hendricks J.R. (2015). Glowing seashells: diversity of fossilized coloration patterns on coral reef-associated cone snail (Gastropoda: Conidae) shells from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic. PLoS ONE. 10(4): e0120924

## External links

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* To World Register of Marine Species

Taxon identifiers

Conus humerosus|

* Wikidata: Q22286148
* CoL: XXKS
* Paleobiology Database: 333895
* WoRMS: 843184

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