Conasprella jaspidea
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Conasprella jaspidea ( original combination Conus jaspideus ) is the species name a snail from the family of cone snails (genus Conasprella ), which in the western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea is common and from Vielborstern malnourished.
features
Conasprella jaspidea bears a medium-sized snail shell that can reach a length of up to 3 cm in adult snails. The whorls of the high, pointed, slightly concave thread are characterized by clearly angled shoulders. The cone-shaped body has a convex outline and is sculptured with spirally running cords. Its surface can be smooth or grainy.
The housing surface is white, orange or brown with darker brownish or purple spots.
distribution and habitat
Conasprella jaspidea is common in the Gulf of Mexico , the Caribbean Sea, and the western Atlantic Ocean from Florida to the coast of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil .
The snail lives in the intertidal zone and at depths of around 100 m.
nutrition
The spoils of Conasprella jaspidea consists of Vielborstern that the Radulazähnen razor and use of the poison from the venom gland be killed. The snail eats, among other things, large fire bristle worms that are longer than the snail. A meal typically lasts around 20 minutes.
literature
- GB Sowerby, II. (1870): Descriptions of forty-eight new species of shells . Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1870, pp. 249-259.
- Alan J. Kohn: Conus of the Southeastern United States and Caribbean. Princeton University Press, Princeton (New Jersey) 2014. pp. 70-74.
- JJ Welch (2010). The Island Rule and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence . PLoS ONE 5 (1), e8776. doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0008776 .
- R. dos Santos Gomes (2011): Conus jaspideus (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Conoidea) on the Brazilian coast. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 91 (2), pp. 531-538.
- N. Puillandre, TF Duda, C. Meyer, BM Olivera, P. Bouchet (2015): One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails. Journal of Molluscan Studies 81, pp. 1-23.
Web links
- Rickard Zerpe (2017): Cone snail ( Conasprella jaspidea pealii ) eating a fireworm. Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
- Christopher Taylor (2018): Conus jaspideus or Conasprella jaspidea , Take Your Pick.