Conus anningae is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.[1][2]
| Conus anningae | |
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| Several shell specimens of Conus anningae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Conus |
| Species: | †C. anningae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Conus anningae Hendricks, 2015
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Description
editThe size of the shell attains 30 mm.
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Distribution
editThis species is only known as a fossil from the lower Pliocene Gurabo Formation in the Dominican Republic.[3]
References
edit- ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Conus anningae Hendricks, 2015 †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=843129 on 2015-06-29
- ^ Hendricks, Jonathan R. (2015-04-01). "Glowing Seashells: Diversity of Fossilized Coloration Patterns on Coral Reef-Associated Cone Snail (Gastropoda: Conidae) Shells from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic". PLOS ONE. 10 (4): e0120924. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1020924H. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0120924. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4382297. PMID 25830769.
- ^ "Conus anningae Hendricks sp". openi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2024-02-05.
External links
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