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Glory-of-the-Atlantic Cone

Linnaeus, 1758

Conus granulatus

Class:

Gastropoda

Order:

Neogastropoda

Family:

Conidae

Conidae

Image Voucher: 

ANSP 479703, ANSP 400645

Shell Information

Length (mm): 25-64.1

Dextral

Chirality:

This shell has spiral rib sculpture. It can vary in color from red to light orange. The middle and shoulder of the body whorl has a stripe of alternating white and dark colors. The shoulder stripe continues on the spire whorls.

Description:

Ecological Information

Distribution:

Depth (m):

East Florida to Barbados

0 to 30 meters

Diet:

Carnivore

Habitat:

Marine

Misc. Facts

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Citations

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase.�Conus granulatus�Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420211 on 2021-09-03

Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. Garc�a. 29. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579�699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico�Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas.

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

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/

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