Conus (Splinoconus) queenslandis da Motta, 1984

Tenorio, Manuel J. & Puillandre, Nicolas, 2023, Revision of the deep-water cone snail fauna from New Caledonia (Gastropoda, Conoidea), European Journal of Taxonomy 896, pp. 1-134 : 107-109

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2023.896.2291

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8415005

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03898788-CA32-3C0C-D7A8-FBB43442FBB9

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Plazi

scientific name

Conus (Splinoconus) queenslandis da Motta, 1984
status

 

Conus (Splinoconus) queenslandis da Motta, 1984 View in CoL View at ENA

Figs 2 View Fig , 80–81 View Fig View Fig

Conus queenslandis da Motta, 1984: 25 View in CoL , fig. 3a–b.

Conus tribblei queenslandis View in CoL – R̂ckel et al. 1995b: pl. 25 figs 13–15.

Kioconus tribblei queenslandis – Tucker & Tenorio 2013: 338.

Kioconus (Kioconus) queenslandis View in CoL – Monnier et al. 2018a: 507.

Material examined

27 lots (37 specimens). See Supp. file 1.

Type material

Holotype AUSTRALIA • 121.6 mm; trawled between Lord Howe and Lady Musgrave Island, Queensland; ca 274 m depth; MHNG MOLL-138916 ( Fig. 80A View Fig ).

Figured material

NEW CALEDONIA • 62 mm; off N New Caledonia, Grand Passage, stn DW2940; 19°04′ S, 165°27′ E; 283‒ 270 m depth; 28 Apr. 2008; CONCALIS expedition; MNHN ( Fig. 80B View Fig ) GoogleMaps 48.4 mm; off New Caledonia, stn DW149; 19º08′ S, 163º23′ E; 155 m depth; 14 Sep. 1985; MUSORSTOM 4 expedition; MNHN ( Fig. 80C View Fig ) GoogleMaps 49.2 mm; Mont Munida, off New Caledonia, stn CP4779; 23°02′ S, 168°17′ E; 270‒293 m depth; 28 Aug. 2016; KANACONO expedition; MNHN ( Fig. 80D, M View Fig ) GoogleMaps 83.6 mm; off E New Caledonia, east coast, stn CP702; 20°56′ S, 165°35′ E; 591‒660 m depth; 18 Mar. 1993; BATHUS 1 expedition; MNHN ( Fig. 80E View Fig ) GoogleMaps 45 mm; Canal de l’Havannah , off New Caledonia, stn CP3788; 22°13′ S, 167°07′ E; 264‒273 m depth; 3 Sep. 2011; EXBODI expedition; MNHN ( Fig. 80F View Fig ) GoogleMaps 86.6 mm; W Île des Pins , off New Caledonia, stn DW4651; 22°42′ S, 167°14′ E; 295‒300 m depth; 9 Aug. 2016; KANACONO expedition; MNHN ( Fig. 80G View Fig ) GoogleMaps 69.6 mm; off E New Caledonia, stn CP713; 21º45′ S, 166º37′ E; 250 m depth; 19 Mar. 1993; BATHUS 1 expedition; MNHN ( Fig. 80H View Fig ) GoogleMaps 27.8 mm; Mont Antigonia, off New Caledonia, stn DW4768; 23°25′ S, 168°01′ E; 180‒210 m depth; 27 Aug. 2016; KANACONO expedition; MNHN ( Fig. 80I View Fig ) GoogleMaps 87 mm; W Île des Pins , off New Caledonia, stn DW4701; 22°41′ S, 167°13′ E; 250‒ 225 m depth; 16 Aug. 2016; KANACONO expedition; MNHN ( Fig. 80J View Fig ) GoogleMaps 22.3 mm; Mont Munida, off New Caledonia, stn DW4775; 23°03′ S, 168°17′ E; 140‒277 m depth; 28 Aug. 2016; KANACONO expedition; MNHN ( Fig. 80K View Fig ) GoogleMaps 21 mm; Loyalty Islands, Lifou, Baie du Santal, off New Caledonia, stn DW1650; 20º54′ S, 167º01.7′ E; 120‒250 m depth; Nov. 2000; LIFOU 2000 expedition; MNHN ( Fig. 80L View Fig ) GoogleMaps .

Geographical distribution and bathymetry

Queensland, Coral Sea and New Caledonia (Grand Passage area, Norfolk Ridge and Loyalty Islands), from 100 to 700 m deep, typically at depths between 100 and 300 m.

Remarks

Shell moderately large to large (maximum shell length 121.6 mm), narrowly conical to conical, with a low spire of concave outline and an angulate shoulder. Multispiral protoconch. Last whorl white to pale orange-brown, with occasional presence of rather diffuse broad spiral bands above and below midbody. Specimens with a nodulose last whorl ( Fig. 80I View Fig ) are known. Radular tooth ( Fig. 80M View Fig ) rather elongated, with the anterior and posterior sections subequal in length. Tooth serrated with 25 to 27 denticles arranged in one row, ending on a rounded cusp. Barb small. Blade rounded, almost indistinct, covering about 70% of the anterior section of the tooth. Strong basal spur present on top of the base. Conus (S.) queenslandis was considered a subspecies of Conus tribblei Walls, 1977 by R̂ckel et al. (1995b) based on similarities in conchological features. In the phylogeny ( Fig. 2 View Fig ), C. tribblei and C. queenslandis form two well-supported sister clades, at a distance consistent with a separation at the species level.

MHNG

Museum d'Histoire Naturelle

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Neogastropoda

Family

Conidae

Genus

Conus

Loc

Conus (Splinoconus) queenslandis da Motta, 1984

Tenorio, Manuel J. & Puillandre, Nicolas 2023
2023
Loc

Kioconus (Kioconus) queenslandis

Monnier E. & Limpalaer L. & Robin A. & Roux C. 2018: 507
2018
Loc

Conus queenslandis

da Motta A. J. 1984: 25
1984
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