- Source: Conasprella jaspidea
Conasprella jaspidea, common name the Jasper cone, is a species of sea snail, a small cone snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
Like all species within the genus Conasprella, these cone snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.
Subspecies
Conasprella jaspidea jaspidea (Gmelin, 1791)
Conasprella jaspidea pealii Green, 1830
Synonyms
Conasprella (Ximeniconus) jaspidea (Gmelin, 1791) accepted, alternate representation
Conus acutimarginatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1866
Conus corrugatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1870
Conus crebrisulcatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1857
Conus exumaensis (Petuch, 2013)
Conus jaspideus f. acutimarginatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1866 (unavailable name: infrasubspecific rank)
Conus jaspideus jaspideus Gmelin, 1791
Conus oleiniki (Petuch, 2013)
Conus sulcatus Mühlfeld, 1816
Jaspidiconus acutimarginatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1866)
Jaspidiconus exumaensis Petuch, 2013
Jaspidiconus jaspideus (Gmelin, 1791)
Jaspidiconus jaspideus f. acutimarginatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1866)
Jaspidiconus jaspideus jaspideus (Gmelin, 1791)
Jaspidiconus oleiniki Petuch, 2013
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean Sea (off Guadeloupe); in the Atlantic Ocean off Northern Brazil.
Description
The maximum recorded shell length is 30 mm.
Habitat
The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m; maximum recorded depth is 97 m.
References
Sowerby, G.B. II. (1870). Descriptions of Forty-eight new Species of Shells. Proc. Zool. Soc. London. (1870): 249–259
Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. and Bouchet P. (2015). One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81: 1–23
External links
The Conus Biodiversity website
Cone Shells – Knights of the Sea
"Jaspidiconus jaspideus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
Specimen in MNHN, Paris