Conasprella puncticulata
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| ( Hwass in Bruguière , 1792) |
Conasprella puncticulata (original combination Conus puncticulatus , synonym : Perplexiconus puncticulatus ) 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 puncticulata carries a small snail shell , which in adult snails reaches 1.4 to 3.2 cm in length. The Protoconch has one and a half whorls. The tapered thread has a slightly concave outline and flat passages. The shell has a broad, round angled shoulder and a convex, mostly smooth body circumference, which, however, is slightly contracted towards the base and covered with spirally running flat ribs or grooves. The surface of the housing is whitish with numerous transverse lines of narrow, small maroon dots and often with light purple to maroon cloud patterns running lengthways in three bands. The inside of the case mouth is white or purple in color.
The body, foot and sipho of the snail are white. Green algae sometimes grow on the body of living snails.
distribution and habitat
Conasprella puncticulata is common in the Caribbean Sea and off the Lesser Antilles . It lives in the intertidal zone and at sea depths of up to 15 m on sandy surfaces.
nutrition
Conasprella puncticulata eats small polychaeta (polychaeta) living in the sand , which are stung with the radula teeth and killed with the help of the poison from the poison gland .
literature
- David P. Berschauer, Leo G. Ros, Jordy Wendriks: Microhabitats of Two Perplexiconus Species in Aruba. The Cone Collector 23 , pp. 3-6.
- Kornelis M. De Jong, Henry E. Coomans: Marine Gastropods from Curação, Aruba and Bonaire. 1988. p. 102.
- Alan J. Kohn: Conus of the Southeastern United States and Caribbean. Princeton University Press, Princeton (New Jersey) 2014. pp. 98-103.
- George Washington Tryon: Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species , vol. VI; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1884. C [onus] puncticulatus Hwass., P. 62.
