Conus striatus

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -6,737 meters (0 to -22,103 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

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. 147, p. 71.
• Catalogue of marine shells in Lorenzo G. Yates' collection, Santa Barbara, Cal. Santa Barbara, Cal., 1886. url p. 39.
• Catalogue of the Doane collection of shells, presented by Mrs. Rose Delano to the Marion natural history society. s.n., The Wareham press, 19--? url p. 25, p. 53.
• Catalogue of the marine mollusks of Japan, with descriptions of new species and notes on others collected by Frederick Stearns, by Henry A. Pilsbry. .. Detroit, Frederick Stearns, 1895. url p. 165, p. 165.
• Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals / by Lovell Augustus Reeve. London: Reeve, Brothers, 1843-1878. url p. 116, p. 63.
• Dangerous marine animals. Cambridge, Md., Cornell Maritime Press, 1959. url p. 39.
• Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Etched for the use of students by Maria Emma Gray. .. London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1859. url p. 2.
• Journal of conchology. London: D. Bogue. url .
• 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. 126, p. 126, p. 148, p. 148, p. 148.
• Marine and fresh-water mollusks of the Solomon Islands / Alan Solem. 34 1953 Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1953. url p. 226.
• Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: The Academy, 1868- url p. 81.
• Memoirs: Australian Museum. Sydney: The Museum, 1851- url p. 480.
• Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, url p. 7, p. 8, p. 9.
• Occasional papers on mollusks. 1 1946 Cambridge, Mass.: Dept. of Mollusks, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1945- url p. 53, p. 72, plate 12, page 74, plate 14, page 76, p. 80.
• "Pola" expedition: Mollusks. [5 works on mollusks resulting from investigations on voyages of the S.M. Schiff "Pola", 1890-1898] Wien, K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1896-1903. url p. 42.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 290.
• Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. [Brisbane, Royal Society of Queensland]1885- url p. 112.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 14, p. 38.
• Quarterly journal of conchology. London, D. Bogue. url p. 74.
• Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H. M. S. 'Alert' 1881-2. London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1884. url .
• Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement. Leyden, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. url p. 31.
• Science and the sea. Washington, U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off. url p. 31, p. 31.
• Shells and sea life. Phoenix, AZ: Miranda Enterprises, url p. 14, p. 148, p. 5.
• Special scientific report. Seattle, National Marine Fisheries Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1971. url p. 57.
• Texas conchologist. [Houston, Houston Conchology Society], 1964- url , , p. 4, p. 41, p. 70.
• 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. 177, p. 77, p. 77.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url p. 164.
• The Linnæan system of conchology: describing the orders, genera, and species of shells arranged into divisions and families: with a view to facilitate the student's attainment of the science / by John Mawe. London: Printed for and sold by the author, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. url p. 85, p. 85.
• The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url p. 120, p. 56, p. 72.
• 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. 322.
• The conchologist's text-book: embracing the arrangements of Lamarck and Linnaeus with a glossary of technical terms, to which is added a brief account of the mollusca / by William MacGillivray. London: A. Fullarton; [1858?] url p. 49, p. 49.
• The new method of education: with illustrative examples, extracts from school documents, and a catalogue of the Normal High School [Milford, N.H.] / by William L. Whittemore; with memorial address. [Medford, Mass.]: The Tufts College Press, 1911. url p. 72.
• The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage; comp. from the collections and notes made by Captain Beechey, the officers and naturalist of the expedition, during a voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Straits performed in His Majesty's ship Blosso London, H.G. Bohn, 1839. url .
• Transactions of Vassar Brothers Institute, and its Scientific Section. Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Vassar Brothers Institute, [1883-1896]. url p. 279.
• Treatise on Malacology; or, the natural classification of shells and shell fish. By William Swainson. .. London: Printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans [etc.], 1840. url p. 149.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed February 5, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 27, 2007:

• 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, Academy of Natural Sciences OBIS Mollusc Database
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, iziko South African Museum - Mollusc Collection
• National Chemical Laboratory, IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1911445
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14853448
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 618708

Footnotes

1. Mean = -2,249.060 meters (-7,378.806 feet), Standard Deviation = 2,205.910 based on 414 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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