Conus
(Dauciconus) daucus (Hwass in
Bruguière, 1792)
La spalla è debolmente angolata o angolata; i primi giri postnucleari sono debolmente tubercolati. La rampa suturale presenta linee spirali ed evidenti linee di crescita. L’ultimo giro presenta evidenti solchi spirali sulla parte anteriore che talvolta si estendono fino alla spalla in modo molto meno evidente.
Con. testa turlinata, ad basim leviter sulcata;
anrantio-rubad, maculis pallidulis, punctisque rubido-fuscis sparsis, seriatim
disposit is, plus minusve cincta ; spira depressa, maculis pallidulis rubidisque
arcuatis tessellata ; apice roseo (2).
The wild-carrot
Cone. Shell turbinated, slightly grooved at the base ; orange-red, more or less
encircled with rows of palish spots and scattered reddish-brown dots ; spire
depressed, tessellated with arched spots of pale and reddish-brown ; apex rose-tinted
(2).
Hwass, Enc. Meth.vers, vol. i. part 2. p. 651.
Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., vol. vii. p. 468.
Sowerby, Conch. Illus., f. 27.
Conus Arausiensis, Chemnitz.
Hab. Seas of America ; Lamarck.
Distribution: from Late Pliocene to recent
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Carrot Cone, Length 43 mm; Caloosahatchee Formation (Pliocene, Neogene, Tertiary), Sarasota, Florida, USA; Shell of own collection, therefore not geocoded. Dorsal, lateral (right side), ventral, back, and front view. Author: H. Zell |
Bibliografia Consultata
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(1) - Bruguière, J. G., and Hwass, C.
H., 1792. Cone. Encyclopédie
Méthodique: Histoire Naturelle des Vers, 1: 586 –757
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- Reeve, 1843
- (3) - Monnier, E.
& Limpalaër, L. (2016) Revision of the Dauciconus daucus complex
(Gastropoda: Conidae). Description of two new species: Dauciconus
jacquescolombi n. sp. from Martinique and Dauciconus massemini n. sp. from
French Guyana. Xenophora Taxonomy, 13, 6–37.