''Conasprella emarginata'' is a species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Conidae
Conidae, with the current common name of "cone snails", is a taxonomic family (previously subfamily) of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Conoidea.
The 2014 classification of the superfamily Conoidea, groups onl ...
, the
cone snails
A cone is a three-dimensional geometric shape that tapers smoothly from a flat base (frequently, though not necessarily, circular) to a point called the apex or vertex.
A cone is formed by a set of line segments, half-lines, or lines co ...
and their allies.
Like all species within the genus ''Conasprella'', 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
The size of the shell varies between 34 mm and 70 mm.
Distribution
Bahía Magdalena
Magdalena Bay ( es, Bahía Magdalena) is a long bay in Comondú Municipality along the western coast of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. It is protected from the Pacific Ocean by the unpopulated sandy barrier islands of Isla Magdalena ...
,
Baja California Sur
Baja California Sur (; 'South Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California Sur), is the least populated state and the 31st admitted state of the 32 federal ent ...
, through most of
Golfo de California,
Mexico. South to
Peru. It has also been reported from
Islas Galapagos.
[Tenorio M.J., Tucker J.K. & Chaney H.W. (2012). ''The Families Conilithidae and Conidae. The Cones of the Eastern Pacific''. In: Poppe G.T. & Groh K. (eds): ''A Conchological Iconography''. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 112 pp., 88 pls.]
File:Conus emarginatus 1.jpg, ''Conasprella emarginata'' (Reeve, L.A., 1844)
File:Conus emarginatus 2.jpg, ''Conasprella emarginata'' (Reeve, L.A., 1844)
References
* Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2013) ''Illustrated catalog of the living cone shells. 517 pp.'' Wellington, Florida: MdM Publishing.
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.
External links
The ''Conus'' Biodiversity websiteCone Shells – Knights of the Sea*
emarginata
''Emarginata'' is a genus of birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae that occur in southern Africa.
The three species in the genus were previously placed in the genus ''Cercomela''. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2 ...
Gastropods described in 1844
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