Conus praecellens A. Adams 1854
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Conus praecellens A. Adams, 1854: 119 (type, BMNH (35 x 15 mm); " China Seas ").
Conus bicolor Sowerby I, 1833: pt. 24, fig. 2 (representation of lectotype, Sowerby I 1833: pt. 37, fig. 56 (36 x 18 mm) (Kohn 1992); " China ").
Conus sinensis Sowerby II, 1841: 174–188.
Conus sowerbii Reeve, 1849: 2 (type, BMNH (36 x 15 mm); locality unknown).
Conus sowerbyi Sowerby II, 1857: 12 ("Feejee Islands").
Conus sowerbyi var. subaequalis Sowerby III, 1870: 257, pl. 22, fig. 5 (" China Seas").
Materials examined: MBMCS145, 1 specimen, SL 38 mm; SW 16 mm.
Description. Shell moderately small, solid and bi-conic. Body whorl conical, outline convex adapically, slightly concave below. Shoulder carinate, with a moderately deep exhalent notch. Spire high, over 1/3 of the entire length, sharply pointed, stepped, outline slightly concave. Body whorl with punctuates or axially striate, spiral grooves of variable width separated by strong ribbons. Aperture narrow, uniformly wide; outer lip thin and straight.
Ground colour dull white. Body whorl with spiral rows of dark brown dots and bars on ribbons and fusing into two to three spiral bands, below shoulder and on both sides of the centre. Aperture white.
Distribution. Röckel et al. (1995) reported a specimen from Madras.
We collected a specimen from Cuddalore (Table 6) by trawling in 20–40 m mainly on sandy-mud bottom.
Remarks. This is the second record from India; C. praecellens appears to be an extremely rare species along the TamilNadu Coast.
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH , MBMCS
- Material sample ID
- MBMCS145
- Scientific name authorship
- A. Adams
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Conidae
- Genus
- Conus
- Species
- praecellens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Conus praecellens Adams, 1854 sec. Franklin, Subramanian, Fernando & Krishnan, 2009
References
- Adams, A. (1854) Descriptions of New Species of the Genus Conus, from the Collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, pp. 116 - 119.
- Sowerby I, G. B. (1833) Conus In: Sowerby, II, G. B. The Conchological Illustrations or coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. London, pp. 24 - 37.
- Kohn, A. J. (1992) A chronological taxonomy of Conus, 1758 - 1840. Smithsonian Institute Press. Washington D. C, 315 pp, 26 pls.
- Sowerby II, G. B. (1841) The Conchological Illustrations or coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. Sowerby, London, pls. 177 - 184.
- Sowerby II, G. B. (1857) Monograph of the genus Conus In: Thesaurus Conchyliorum or Monographs of the Genera of Shells, London, Vol. 3. 17, pp. 1 - 24, pls. 187 (1) - 195 (9).
- Sowerby III, G. B. (1870) Descriptions of Forty-eight new Species of Shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. pp. 219 - 259.
- Rockel, D., Korn, W. & Kohn, A. J. (1995) Manual of the living Conidae. Vol. 1: Indo-Pacific. Christa Hemmen Verlag, Wiesbaden, pp. 516, pl. 84.