Conus daucus

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 30-Dec-2004

Similar Species

Members of the genus Conus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 27 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. anabathrum (Florida Cone) · C. armiger (Mace Cone) · C. attenuatus (Slender Cone) · C. aulicus (Courtly Cone) · C. californicus (California Cone) · C. cancellatus (Cancellate Cone) · C. daucus (Carrot Cone) · C. ermineus (Agate Cone) · C. flamingo (Flamingo Cone) · C. flavescens (Flame Cone) · C. floridanus (Florida Cone) · C. gloriamaris (Glory-Of-The-Sea Cone) · C. granarius (Sevan Trout) · C. granulatus (Glory-Of-The-Atlantic Cone) · C. jacarusoi (Gelatinous Snailfish) · C. jaspideus (Jasper Cone) · C. jaspideus verrucosus (Jasper Cone) · C. marmoratus (Chain-Forming Dinoflagellate) · C. mindanus (Bermuda Cone) · C. mus (Mouse Cone) · C. patae (Sunrise Cone) · C. regius (Crown Cone) · C. sennottorum (Speckled Cone) · C. spurius (Alphabet Cone) · C. stearnsii (Dusky Cone) · C. stimpsoni (Yellow Cone) · C. striatus (Striated Cone)

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Further Reading

• A catalog of recent Mollusca from all parts of the world. St. Petersburg, Fa: W.F. Webb, 19--. url p. 146, p. 39.
• A catalogue of the shells, arranged according to the Lamarckian system: with their authorities, synonymes, and references to works where figured or described, contained in the collection of John C. Jay. New York: Craighead, 1850. url p. 396, p. 404.
• American seashells. With illus. by Frederick M. Bayer. New York, Van Nostrand[1954] url p. 260.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 18 1889 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 69, p. 69, p. 70, p. 70, p. 8, p. 8.
• Bulletins of American paleontology. 42 1962 Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution [etc.] url p. 425, p. 426, p. 71.
• Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals / by Lovell Augustus Reeve. London: Reeve, Brothers, 1843-1878. url p. 113, p. 40.
• Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida, with especial reference to the Miocene silex-beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Calooshatchie River. Philadelphia, 1890-1903 url p. 1605.
• Duplicate shells collected by the United States Exploring Expedition, under Capt. C. Wilkes, U.S.N. Washington, D.C.: The Institution, 1865 url p. 2.
• East coast marine shells: descriptions of shore mollusks together with many living below tide mark, from Maine to Texas inclusive, especially Florida, with more than one thousand drawings and photographs / by Maxwell Smith. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Edwards Brothers, 1951, [c1937] url p. 134, p. 254.
• East coast marine shells; descriptions of shore mollusks together with many living below tide mark, from Maine to Texas inclusive, especially Florida. Ann Arbor, Mich., Edwards Brothers, Inc.[c1937] url p. 254.
• Index testaceologicus, an illustrated catalogue of British and foreign shells, containing about 2, 800 figures accurately coloured after nature, by W. Wood. .. London, Willis and Sotheran, 1856. url p. 77.
• List of marine Mollusca comprising the Quaternary fossils and recent forms from American localities between Cape Hatteras and Cape Roque, including the Bermudas / by William Healey Dall. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1885. url p. 85.
• Manual of conchology, structural and systematic: with illustrations of the species / by George W. Tryon, Jr. Philadelphia: Published by the Author, Academy of Natural Sciences, 1879-1898. url p. 117, p. 117, p. 121, p. 121, p. 121, p. 138, p. 138, p. 138, p. 48, p. 48, p. 96, p. 96, p. 96.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 11, p. 301.
• Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement. Leyden, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. url p. 22, p. 557.
• Shell album / text, diagrams and photography by Helen S. O'Brien. Fort Myers, FL: O'Brien Color Studio, 1953. url p. 26.
• Shells and sea life. Phoenix, AZ: Miranda Enterprises, url p. 230.
• Texas conchologist. Houston, Houston Conchology Society url p. 85.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 217, p. 217.
• The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url , p. 122, p. 122, p. 123, p. 126, p. 23, p. 24, p. 32, p. 5, p. 51, p. 6.
• The West-Indian marine shells: with some remarks, a manuscript printed for circulation between collectors. Falster, Denmark: Printed by W. Laubs widow & Chr. Jørgensen, 1864. url p. 3.
• The conchologist's nomenclator: a catalogue of all the recent species of shells / by Agnes Catlow; assisted by Lovell Reeve. London: Reeve Brothers, 1845. url p. 317.
• Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia, 1887-1927. url p. 1605, p. 28.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed February 5, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

• Academy of Natural Sciences: Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database
• Academy of Natural Sciences: Academy of Natural Sciences OBIS Mollusc Database [Darwin Core]
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Benthic biodiversity along the central coast in the Brazilian EEZ (OBIS South America, BRAZIL) (OBIS South America, BRAZIL)
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Costa Rica): Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database
• National Museum of Natural History: NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collections

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2686697
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-75285
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 75285
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 509444

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