Conus abbas
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Conus abbas is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.[1]
Description
The shell is white, very finely reticulated with narrow orange-brown lines, with a broad central and often narrower upper and lower bands of darker color bearing occasional longitudinal chocolate stripes.[2]
The height of the shell is from 1.5 inches (38 mm) to 2.5 inches (64 mm).[2]
It is very closely allied to Conus textile textile, but the shell is smaller, the reticulations much smaller, the longitudinal streaks rarely apparent, and the dark bands of Conus abbas occupy about the same positions as the lightest markings of textile.[2]
Distribution
Distribution aftrer Tryon (1884): East Africa, Ceylon, Philippines, New Caledonia.[2]
Distribution after Conus Biodiversity website: from South India and Sri Lanka to Java and Bali in Indonesia.[3]
Ecology
Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.
References
This article incorporates public domain text from references [2].
- ^ a b Conus abbas Hwass in Bruguière, 1792. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 March 2010.
- ^ a b c d e Tryon G. W. (1884). Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Volume 6. Conidae, Pleurotomidae. page 92. Plate 30, figure 12-14.
- ^ "Conus abbas Hwass in Bruguière, 1792.". The Conus Biodiversity website, accessed 21 March 2010.