Conasprella cercadensis

Conasprella cercadensis
Several views of a shell of Conasprella cercadensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Conidae
Genus:	Conasprella
Species:	C. cercadensis
Binomial name
Conasprella cercadensis (Maury, 1917)
Synonyms[1]
† Conasprella (Ximeniconus) cercadensis (Maury, 1917) · accepted, alternate representation † Conus cercadensis Maury, 1917 † (original combination) † Perplexiconus cercadensis (Maury), Tucker and Tenorio, 2009

Conasprella cercadensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.^[1]

Description

The shell pattern consists of about 30–40 spiral lines, extending from base to shoulder; these coincide with the raised posterior edges of spiral ribs on the anterior half of the body whorl. The sutural ramp is unpigmented.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species was found as a fossil in a Neogene coral reef-associated deposit in the Dominican Republic.

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2015). Conasprella berschaueri (Petuch & R. F. Myers, 2014). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=836466 on 2015-06-14
2. 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

• 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

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