Conus miles Linnaeus, 1758

Franklin, J. Benjamin, Subramanian, K. A., Fernando, S. Antony & Krishnan, K. S., 2009, 2250, Zootaxa 2250, pp. 1-63 : 39

publication ID

1175­5334

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5323329

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A287BE-FF9F-A53F-CFBA-C512FD08A1EC

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scientific name

Conus miles Linnaeus, 1758
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39. Conus miles Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL (Figure 40)

Conus miles Linnaeus, 1758: 713 View in CoL View Cited Treatment , no. 255 (lectotype, LSL (53 x 31 mm) ( Kohn 1963); " India ").

Material examined: MBMCS 139 , 1 specimen, SL 45 mm; SW 24 mm .

Description. Shell moderately large, solid, glossy; outline broadly conical. Shoulder angulate, broad, weakly undulate. Spire of moderate height, bluntly pointed; outline straight. Body whorl smooth except widely spaced spiral ribs on basal third and few spiral threads in between. Aperture moderately wide, uniform in width; outer lip thin and sharp.

Ground colour dull white. Body whorl with a narrower light-brown spiral band above centre, also wider deep solid brown band on basal fourth to third, remaining areas clouded with lighter brown crossed by well separated fine orange axial lines that extend to shoulder ramp. Spire white, covered with fine orange brown axial lines, early whorls badly eroded, white. Aperture translucent.

Distribution. We obtained a specimen from Pamban ( Table 6) by trawling in 10– 20 m.

Remarks. Linnaeus gave the type locality of this species as ‘India’ ( Röckel et al. 1995) without precise locality data. This record appears to be first to give the exact locality of C. miles in India. This species is extremely rare along the TamilNadu Coast.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Neogastropoda

Family

Conidae

Genus

Conus

Loc

Conus miles Linnaeus, 1758

Franklin, J. Benjamin, Subramanian, K. A., Fernando, S. Antony & Krishnan, K. S. 2009
2009
Loc

Conus miles

Linnaeus, C. 1758: 713
1758
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