Mouse cone
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Housing of Conus mus |
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| Hwass in Bruguière , 1792 |
The mice cone ( Conus mus ) is a snail from the family of cone snails (genus Conus ), which in the western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea is common and from Vielborstern malnourished.
features
Conus mus has a moderately large snail shell , which in adult snails can reach up to 4.4 cm in length. The thread of the bowl is covered with tubercles. Narrow, raised stripes run around the body. The surface of the case is ash-white with chestnut-colored vertical stripes and spots. The tubercles of the thread are white, and there is usually a white stripe between the center and the base of the perimeter of the body. The case mouth is chestnut colored with a middle white stripe.
The radula teeth are about 2 to 3% as long as the snail shell. They have a barb, which makes up about 6 to 8% of the total tooth length, a cutting edge about a third of the tooth length, a row of teeth about a quarter of the tooth length, a prong and a spur.
The top of the foot and the sipho are dark pink with black spots, the sole of the foot is cream-colored to light pink with darker pink edges.
distribution and habitat
Conus mus occurs in the western Atlantic Ocean , Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico from North Carolina and Bermuda to Venezuela . It prefers sea depths of up to 18 m.
food
The prey of Conus mus consists of Vielborstern (Polychaeta). It has been observed eating highly poisonous, defensive and predatory firebristle worms (Amphinomidae), which it stings and eats with its poisonous radula teeth . However, these teeth differ from those of other cone snails such as Conus cedonulli and Conus regius , which also eat fire bristle worms.
literature
- Alan J. Kohn: Conus of the Southeastern United States and Caribbean. Princeton University Press, Princeton (New Jersey) 2014. pp. 358-363.
- George Washington Tryon: Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species , vol. VI; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1884. C [onus] mus Hwass, p. 19.
- 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 .
