Butterfly Cone

Description: English: Conus pulcher Lightfoot, 1786. Specimen from Banjul, The Gambia, summer 1998. Fairly common species. 23 cm. Date: 12 February 2011. Source: Own work. Author: MerlinCharon.

Description: English: Conus pulcher [Lightfoot], 1786 (synonym: Conus prometheus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792); Conidae; Angola. Date: 7 August 2009. Source: https://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id95152/. Author: Jan Delsing.

Description: English: Conus pulcher 3. Date: 12 February 2012. Source: Own work. Author: Almed2.

Description: English: Conus pulcher in a private collection, in London, England. Magyar: Conus pulcher egy magángyűjteményben, az angliai Londonban. Date: 12 May 2011. Source: kindly granted by the author. Author: Emőke Dénes. Permission(Reusing this file): This file was created by Emőke Dénes and uploaded by DenesFeri. : This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. :. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 CC BY-SA 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 truetrue. : This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2017083110036563. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard. Ticket link: https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketNumber=2017083110036563..

Description: English: Conus pulcher, Lightfoot 1786. Albino shell 155 mm, regular shell 128 mm. With periostracum. Banjul, The Gambia, 2004. Date: 1 March 2011. Source: Own work. Author: MerlinCharon.

Description: Conus pulcher Lightfoot, 1786 - butterfly cone snail shell (abapertural view), modern (latest Holocene). (public display, Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA) The gastropods (snails & slugs) are a group of molluscs that occupy marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments. Most gastropods have a calcareous external shell (the snails). Some lack a shell completely, or have reduced internal shells (the slugs & sea slugs & pteropods). Most members of the Gastropoda are marine. Most marine snails are herbivores (algae grazers) or predators/carnivores. The conid gastropods (cone shells) are fascinating marine snails for a couple reasons - they have attractively-shaped, colorful shells and they are killers. The conids are predatory, as are many other marine snails, but they take down their prey in an unusual fashion. The radula of most snails is a mineralized or heavily sclerotized mass of small teeth that scrapes across a substrate during feeding. Conid snails have a toxoglossate radula - one that has been evolutionarily modified into tiny, unattached, toxin-bearing, harpoon-like darts (see photo - science.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/files/images/niederhofer_2..) that can be fired at prey. Each dart is an individual tooth. The nickname "killer snails" is well deserved (even people have been killed). Some species have incredibly powerful toxins, while in other species the toxin has little effect on humans. The butterfly cone snail shown above is part of the West African Province: "The warm waters of the West African coast of the Atlantic possess very unique species, especially in the volute, murex and margin shell families. The region extends from Morocco to Angola with habitats varying from muddy sand flats to stretches of black, basalt rock. People in this area use mollusks extensively for food." [info. from museum signage} Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Gastropoda, Neogastropoda, Conoidea, Conidae More info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conus and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conus_pulcher. Date: 3 January 2016, 17:48. Source: Conus pulcher (butterfly cone snail) 2. Author: James St. John.

Description: Photographed in the Sea Shell Museum Phuket Conus pulcher. Date: 15 February 2016, 09:26:44. Source: Own work. Author: Amada44.

Description: English: Conus pulcher 2. Date: 12 February 2012. Source: Own work. Author: Almed2.

Description: English: Conus pulcher in a private collection, in London, England. Magyar: Conus pulcher egy magángyűjteményben, az angliai Londonban. Date: 12 May 2011. Source: kindly granted by the author. Author: Emőke Dénes. Permission(Reusing this file): This file was created by Emőke Dénes and uploaded by DenesFeri. : This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. :. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 CC BY-SA 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 truetrue. : This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2017083110036563. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard. Ticket link: https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketNumber=2017083110036563..

Description: English: Conus pulcher [Lightfoot], 1786 (synonym: Conus prometheus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792); Conidae; Angola. Date: 7 August 2009. Source: https://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id95150/. Author: Jan Delsing.

Description: English: Conus pulcher in a private collection, in London, England. Magyar: Conus pulcher egy magángyűjteményben, az angliai Londonban. Date: 12 May 2011. Source: kindly granted by the author. Author: Emőke Dénes. Permission(Reusing this file): This file was created by Emőke Dénes and uploaded by DenesFeri. : This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. :. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 CC BY-SA 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 truetrue. : This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2017083110036563. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard. Ticket link: https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketNumber=2017083110036563..

Description: Magyar: Conus pulcher az angliai Natural History Museum-ban. English: Conus pulcher at the Natural History Museum in London, England. Date: 30 August 2018, 17:09:46. Source: kindly granted by the author. Author: Emőke Dénes. Permission(Reusing this file): This file was created by Emőke Dénes and uploaded by DenesFeri. : This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. :. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 CC BY-SA 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 truetrue. : This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2017083110036563. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard. Ticket link: https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketNumber=2017083110036563..

Description: English: Conus pulcher [Lightfoot], 1786 (synonym: Conus prometheus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792); Conidae; Angola. Date: 7 August 2009. Source: https://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id95151/. Author: Jan Delsing.

Senegal, Dakar, Anse de Hann, at 10 m depth, collected 1988, ex coll. J. Trausel. Image by Joop Trausel and Frans Slieker

Senegal, Dakar, Ile de N'Gor, ex coll. J. Trausel. Image by Joop Trausel and Frans Slieker