Conus guinaicus is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk. It is part of the genus Conus, more popularly known as cone snails, cone shells or cones.

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 21.6 mm and 60 mm. The inflated shell is rather thin. The spire and lower portion of the body whorl are striate. The color of the shell is chestnut or olivaceous, with usually two bands of irregular white cloudings, and scattered white spots. The aperture has a chocolate color, faintly white-banded in the middle.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Senegal and Gambia.

Conus guinaicus with a different color and pattern

Gallery

  • Conus guinaicus Hwass in Bruguière, J.G., 1792
  • Conus guinaicus Hwass in Bruguière, J.G., 1792
  • Conus guinaicus Hwass in Bruguière, J.G., 1792
  • Pin, M.; Tack, K.D.L. (1995). Les cônes du Sénégal. [The Conidae of Senegal]. La Conchiglia 277(Suppl.): 1–55,
  • Tucker J.K. (2009). Recent cone species database. September 4, 2009 Edition
  • Filmer R.M. (2001). A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758 - 1998. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 388pp.
  • Petuch E.J. & Berschauer D.P. (2018). A new Lautoconus species radiation from Gambia, West Africa. The Festivus. 50(3): 164–172.

External links

  • ; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792 ]
  • (assumed to be 1850); plates 4,6 (1844); 2–3, 5, 7-32, 34–36, 38, 40-50 (1845); 33, 37, 39, 51–52, 54–56, 57–68, 74-77 (1846); 1, 69–73, 78-103 (1847); 104-106 (1848); 107 (1849); 108-111 (1850)]. Paris, Rousseau & J.B. Baillière., available online at

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