Profundiconus puillandrei

Profundiconus puillandrei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1][2]

Profundiconus puillandrei
Shell of Profundiconus puillandrei (holotype in MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Genus: Profundiconus
Species:
P. puillandrei
Binomial name
Profundiconus puillandrei
Tenorio & Castelin, 2016

Like all species within the genus Profundiconus, these cone snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.

Description

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the Norfolk Ridge (off New Caledonia)

gollark: Well, there should be one. You have got computers in the world, right?
gollark: It's under... world/computer/[ID] or something like that.
gollark: Yep! You can copy the files from your working directory to the computer's folder in the world directory.
gollark: It does annoy me that `term` is global and you can't really pass it to things.
gollark: SquidDev's shiny replacement for LuaJ in CC:T.

References
  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Profundiconus puillandrei Tenorio & Castelin, 2016. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=868668 on 2018-03-29
  2. 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
  • Tenorio M.J. & Castelin M. (2016). Genus Profundiconus Kuroda, 1956 (Gastropoda, Conoidea): Morphological and molecular studies, with the description of five new species from the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia. European Journal of Taxonomy. 173: 1–45
  • "Profundiconus puillandrei". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.