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Crown Cone

Gmelin, 1791

Conus regius

Class:

Order:

Family:

Gastropoda

Neogastropoda

Conidae

Conidae

Image Voucher: 

ANSP 296190, ANSP 374429

Shell Information

Length (mm): 50-75

Dextral

Chirality:

The crown cone is relatively thick shell with a blunt spire. It has faint spiral ribs some of which are beaded. It is usually a warm brown color with patches of white that can vary dramatically in size making some looks mostly white.

Description:

Ecological Information

Distribution:

Depth (m):

East Florida to Brazil

0 to 95 meters

Diet:

Carnivore; They eat a variety of anellids including christmas tree worms, feather dusters, fireworms, ect.

Habitat:

Marine; Coral reefs

Misc. Facts

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Citations

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Conus regius Gmelin, 1791. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420220 on 2021-09-03

Rosenberg, G. 2009. Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca. [WWW database (version 4.1.1)] URL http://www.malacolog.org/

Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (214). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. https://doi.org/1.116/j.ecoinf.214.8.5.

Morris, P. A. (1987). A field guide to shells: Atlantic and Gulf coasts and the West Indies (3rd ed.). Houghton Mifflin.

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