Conus lentiginosus Reeve

Venkitesan, R., Barua, S. & Hafiz, Md., 2019, Contribution to the knowledge on Indian Marine Molluscs: Family Conidae, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (2), pp. 165-184 : 175

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v119/i2/2019/144125

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scientific name

Conus lentiginosus Reeve
status

 

40. Conus lentiginosus Reeve View in CoL (Plate III fig. 33) 1849. Conus lentiginosus Reeve, Conch. Icon. , pl. 44, no. 245. 2007. Conus lentiginosus : Ramkrishna, Dey, Barua and

Mukhopadhya, Fauna of Andhra Pradesh, State Fauna series, 5 (7): 129. Zool. Surv. India.

Material examined: Andhra Pradesh- 2 exs. Gujarat- 3

exs, Maharshatra 4 exs.

Measurements (in mm): Length: 28.90- 34.70 Diameter:

15.40-19.30 Aperture: 24.20- 29.10

Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharshatra. Elsewhere: Indo-Pacific.

Remarks: The first record of this species from India was by Reeve (1843) off Bombay, also reported one specimen of C. lentiginosus deposited in the ZSI as dredged off Vizhagapattinam.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Neogastropoda

Family

Conidae

Genus

Conus

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