Conus (Jaspidiconus) wilsoni (Petuch, 1994)
Description (2): Shell of average size for subgenus, slightly elongated, cylindrical, with high, scalariform spire; shoulder sharply-angled, carinated; body whorl smooth and polished, ornamented with very faint, almost obsolete, thin spiral threads and 10-12 deeply-impressed spiral sulci around anterior one-third; color pattern (almost always preserved) composed of numerous spiral rows of large, elongated dots, with dots aligning themselves longitudinally to form irregular, zig-zag, axial flammules; aperture narrow.
Holotype: UF66442, Length 20 mm.
Type Locality: Caloosahatchee Fauna, from Miami Canal dredging, 20 miles south of Lake Harbor, Palm Beach County.
Remarks: Conus wilsoni is most similar to the Fort Thompson and Recent C. jaspideus Gmelin, 1791 (Plate 94, Figure N), but differs in being a more cylindrical shell with a higher spire, in lacking strong spiral sulci on the body whorl, and in having a different color pattern composed of zig-zag flammules of large dota. stearnsi Conrad" of most previous workers (Le. Olsson and Harbison, 1953). That species, however, is a Recent cone from the western coast of Florida. This is the "Conus stearnsi Conrad” of mpst previous workers (i.e. Olsson and Harbison, 1953). That species, however, is a recent Cone from the western coast of Florida.
Etymology: Named for Mr. Steve Wilson of Arcadia, Florida, who collected the holotype.
E’ considerato da Hendricks sinonimo del Conus jaspideus (1).
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Bibliografia Consultata
(1) - HENDRICKS, Jonathan R. ,THE GENUS CONUS (MOLLUSCA: NEOGASTROPODA) IN THE PLIO-PLEISTOCENE OF THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES – 2008
(2) Petuch (1994) “Atlas of Florida fossil shells : (Pliocene and Pleistocene marine gastopods) “
