Lattice cone
| Lattice cone snail | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Housing of Conus cancellatus |
||||||||||||
| Systematics | ||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
| Scientific name | ||||||||||||
| Conus cancellatus | ||||||||||||
| Hwass in Bruguière , 1792 |
The grid cone or grid-cone snail ( Conus cancellatus ) is a snail from the family of cone snails (genus Conus ), which in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea lives.
features
The broad, pear-shaped snail shell of Conus cancellatus , narrowed towards the base , which in fully grown snails reaches a length of 8 cm, has an angled shoulder. The thread is high, its outline concave and its whorls keeled. The perimeter of the body is covered with closely spaced spirally running, striped furrows and transversely running rounded ribs, which together give the housing the lattice structure.
The basic color of the housing is white. The area around the body is indistinctly covered in two bands with a light maroon cloud pattern. The whorls of the thread are mottled with light chestnut brown.
distribution
The lattice cone occurs in the western Atlantic Ocean in the Lesser Antilles , the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico . It lives at depths of 26 to 110 m.
food
Conus cancellatus eats many bristles , as finds of bristles from snail stomachs show. Like other cone snails, it has poison teeth on the radula , which are connected to a poison gland and with which it injects poison into prey.
literature
- Alan J. Kohn: Conus of the Southeastern United States and Caribbean. Princeton University Press, Princeton (New Jersey) 2014. pp. 264-270.
- George Washington Tryon: Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species , vol. VI; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1884. C [onus] cancellatus Hwass, pp. 74f.
- Jerry G. Walls: Cone Shells: A Synopsis of the Living Conidae. TFH Publications, Neptune (New Jersey) 1979. p. 267.
- 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 .
