Conus monachus
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Conus monachus, common name the monastic cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.[1]
These snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of stinging humans.
Description
The size of the shell varies between 18 mm (0.71 in) and 74 mm (2.9 in). The shell is a little inflated and distantly grooved below. The spire is striate and somewhat convex. The shell is white, longitudinally marbled and flecked with dull blue or purple.[3] It captures its prey by using the "taser-and-tether" (harpoon) strategy. This means it stuns its prey by using venom and extends a proboscis from its rostrum and "hooks" the fish, the same way a harpoon would.[4]
Distribution and habitat
This marine species occurs in the Indo-Pacific. It is found in the neritic zone and resides in muddy sand and under rocks.[5]
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bouchet P (2015). "Conus monachus Linnaeus, 1758". MolluscaBase. Retrieved 2015-11-04 – via World Register of Marine Species.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tryon GW (1884). Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Vol. VI. Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Sciences.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Olivera BM, Seger J, Horvath MP, Fedosov AE (September 2015). "Prey-Capture Strategies of Fish-Hunting Cone Snails: Behavior, Neurobiology and Evolution". Brain, Behavior and Evolution. 86 (1): 58–74. doi:10.1159/000438449. PMC 4621268. PMID 26397110.
- ^ Palomares ML, Pauly D, eds. (2022). "Conus monachus" in SeaLifeBase. April 2022 version.
Further reading
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Linnaeus C (1758). "Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis" [The system of nature is divided into three kingdoms of nature, based on classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, and places.] (in Latin) (Tenth, reformed. ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentius Salvius. Archived from the original on 2017-06-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Puillandre N, Duda TF, Meyer C, Olivera BM, Bouchet P (February 2015). "One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails". The Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyu055. PMC 4541476. PMID 26300576.
External links
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