Ermine tail
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Casing of Conus ermineus |
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| Born , 1778 |
The ermine tail or the ermine tail cone snail ( Conus ermineus ) is a snail from the family of cone snails (genus Conus ). It is the only fish-eating conus species in the Atlantic .
features
According to Ignaz von Born's first description of Conus ermineus , “the pear-shaped red-yellow shell [...] has raised dotted stripes at the base and snow-white transverse bands. The peel is pear-shaped and smooth, striped across the bottom, and sprinkled with grains on the raised strips. The Schnirkel [the thread] is conical. The threads [whorls] smooth and somewhat flat. The color red-yellow on the curl, spotted with white, and surrounded around the body with two interrupted transverse bands. The raised points or grains are white. "
In fully grown snails, the casing can reach a length of up to 10.3 mm.
distribution
The ermine tail occurs in the Caribbean and the Atlantic coast of America, so there are finds from the USA ( Louisiana , Texas ), Mexico , Costa Rica , Colombia , Venezuela , Puerto Rico , St. Vincent and Suriname .
habitat
Ermine-tailed cone snails live on the coast up to 100 m depth.
food
As the only cone snail in the Atlantic, Conus ermineus eats fish . The prey is first harpooned with the poisonous radula tooth and then swallowed within a few seconds. Occasionally this cone snail apparently also eats cephalopods ; thus the beak of an octopus was found in the intestine of a Conus ermineus .
literature
- Dieter Röckel, Werner Korn, Alan J. Kohn: Manual of the Living Conidae Vol. 1: Indo-Pacific Region . Verlag Christa Hemmen, Wiesbaden 1995. The texts on the individual cone snail species of the Indo-Pacific are published on The Conus Biodiversity website with the permission of the authors (see web links).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ignaz von Born : Index rerum naturalium musei Caesarei Vindobonensis. Directory of the natural rarities of the Imperial and Royal Naturalien Cabinet in Vienna. Volume 1: Testacea. Kraus, Vienna 1778. pp. 141–142: C. II. 11. Conus ermineus. The ermine tail. (Reprint: sl, Nabu Press 2010, ISBN 978-1-149-41770-6 ).
- ↑ a b Welch JJ (2010). "The" Island Rule "and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5 (1): e8776. doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0008776 .
- ↑ Malacolog - A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca: Conus ermineus Born, 1778
- ^ JA Rivera-Ortiz, H. Cano, F. Marí: Intraspecies variability and conopeptide profiling of the injected venom of Conus ermineus. In: Peptides. Volume 32, number 2, February 2011, pp. 306-316, doi : 10.1016 / j.peptides.2010.11.014 , PMID 21126547 , PMC 3619394 (free full text).
- ^ The Conus Biodiversity website. Piscivorous feeding: Conus ermineus preying on a fish. Filmed by David Hicks
- ↑ Baldomero M. Olivera, Jon Seger, Martin P. Horvath, Alexander E. Fedosov: Prey-Capture Strategies of Fish-Hunting Cone Snails: Behavior, Neurobiology and Evolution. In: Brain, behavior and evolution. Volume 86, number 1, September 2015, pp. 58-74, doi : 10.1159 / 000438449 , PMID 26397110 , PMC 4621268 (free full text) (review).
Web links
- Conus ermineus inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Petuch, E., 2011. Retrieved February 16, 2014.