- Source: Conasprella mindana
Conasprella mindana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
Like all species within the genus Conasprella, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.
Subspecies
Conasprella mindanus bermudensis Clench, W.J., 1962
Conasprella mindana mindana (Hwass in Bruguière, 1792)
Distribution
Locus typicus: (of C. mindanus agassizii) "Off Santa Cruz (=St. Croix, Virgin Islands) in 115 fathoms.
Specimens of the type material conspecific with C. agassizi
were also collected off Barbados, in 76 fathoms."
This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Costa Rica, Guadeloupe and Curacao; in the Atlantic Ocean off Eastern Brazil, Barbados and Bermuda
Description
The maximum recorded shell length is 50 mm.
Habitat
The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m; the maximum recorded depth is 210 m.
References
Rabiller M. & Richard G. , 2019. Conidae offshore de Guadeloupe : Description du matériel dragué lors de l’expédition KARUBENTHOS 2 contenant de nouvelles espèces. Xenophora Taxonomy 24: 3-31
Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015). One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81: 1–23
Gallery
Below are several color forms and one subspecies:
External links
The Conus Biodiversity website
Cone Shells – Knights of the Sea
"Jaspidiconus mindanus mindanus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
Specimen at MNHN, Paris