Conasprella nereis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Genus: Conasprella
Species:
C. nereis
Binomial name
Conasprella nereis
(Petuch, 1979)
Synonyms[1]

Conus nereis Petuch, 1979

Conasprella nereis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.[1]

Description

"Shell of Conasprella nereis is thin delicate smooth and glossy, its outline straight-sided and elongate; the shoulder is smooth, sharp and distinctly carinate with a small groove just anterior to the shoulder carina. The anterior one-third of the shell has six to eight wide and deeply incised spiral sulci. Shell colour is pale blue-white with three light brown bands: one just anterior to the shoulder, one at mid-body and one anterior to the mid-body line. Three to four rows of alternating brown and white dashes between brown bands: dashes are rectangular-shaped, giving the shell a checkerboard effect. Spire colour is white with alternating dark brown, crescent-shaped brown flammules, said flammules extending from the suture across the shoulder, on to the body whorl, producing a pattern of alternating white and dark brown dashes along the shoulder carina. The aperture of the shell is pale lilac, and its periostracum is thin, smooth and translucent yellow-brown."
The length of the shell varies between three 19 mm and 27 mm.

Distribution

Locus typicus: "Approximately 250 metres depth off Panglao,
Bohol Isl., Philippines."[2]

This marine species occurs off the Philippines and in the Makassar Strait.

Habitat

"Like Conus aphrodite and Conus boholensis, Conus nereis is a member
of the mud bottom community that borders the Philippine Trenches.
It is sympatric with the same gastropods." [3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Trench

References

  1. 1 2 MolluscaBase (2018). Conasprella nereis (Petuch, 1979). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1291290 on 2018-12-27
  2. ↑ Petuch, E.J. 1979-Twelve new Indo-Pacific gastropods, Nemouria Vol. 23, page 18.
  3. ↑ Petuch, E.J. 1979-Twelve new Indo-Pacific gastropods, Nemouria Vol. 23, page 18.
  • Petuch, Edward J. "Twelve new Indo-Pacific gastropods." Nemouria 23 (1979): 1-21.
  • Monnier E., Limpalaër L., Robin A. & Roux C. (2018). A taxonomic iconography of living Conidae. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 2 vols. 1205 pp. page(s): 194


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