Conus olssoni
Species of sea snail
| Conus olssoni Temporal range: Neogene | |
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| Several images of Conus olssoni; all image are reversed images photographed under UV light. | |
Conservation status | |
 Extinct (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Conus |
| Species: | †C. olssoni |
| Binomial name | |
| †Conus olssoni Maury, 1917 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Conus olssoni is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.[1]
Description
The size of the shell varies between 22 mm and 46 mm.
Distribution
This extinct species is known in the fossil state from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic
References
- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2015). Conus olssoni. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=843132 on 2015-11-11
- Hendricks J.R. (2015). Glowing seashells: diversity of fossilized coloration patterns on coral reef-associated cone snail (Gastropoda: Conidae) shells from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic. PLoS ONE. 10(4): e0120924
External links
- To World Register of Marine Species
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