''Conus bahamensis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod

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in the

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Conidae, the

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, cone shells or cones.Bouchet, P. (2015). Conus bahamensis Vink & Röckel, 1995. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=430478 on 2015-07-23 These snails are

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and

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. They are capable of "stinging" humans.

Description

The size of the shell reaches 31 mm.

Distribution

This marine species of cone snail occurs in the

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References

* Vink, D. L. N. and D. Röckel. 1995. C''onus bahamensis n. sp., a name for an elusive cone''. Apex 10: 99-101. * 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

To World Register of Marine Species

Cone Shells - Knights of the Sea
* bahamensis Gastropods described in 1995 {{Conus-stub