Species Conus (Cylinder) retifer Menke, 1829

Museums

Regional Maps

• Conus retifer Menke, K.T. 1829. Verzeichniss der ansehnlischen Conchylien-Sammlung der Freiherrn von der Malsburg. Pyrmonti : Publisher not known pp. i–vi, 1–123. [68].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Philippines and Society Islands.
• Conus textile sulcata Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1834. Conus. pls 54–57 in Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) (ed). The Conchological Illustrations or coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. London : G.B. Sowerby (2nd). [pl. 56, fig. 76] [junior homonym; not Conus sulcatus Hwass, 1792; as Conus textile var. sulcata].

  Type data:

   Lectotype none.
• Conus solidus Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1841. The Conchological Illustrations or coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. London : G.B. Sowerby (2nd) 200 pls. [index] [junior homonym; not Conus solidus Gmelin, 1791; replacement name for Conus textile var. sulcata Sowerby I, 1834].

 

Generic Combinations

• Cylinder retifer (Menke, 1829). —
  Tucker, J.K. & Tenorio, M.J. 2009. Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. ConchBooks pp. 296. [69]
• Conus (Cylinder) retifer Menke, 1829. —
  Puillandre, N., Duda, T.F., Meyer, C., Olivera, B.M. & Bouchet, P. 2015. One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails. Journal of Molluscan Studies 81: 1–23 [7]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from east Africa to Hawaii and French Polynesia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23)

Ecological Descriptors

Algal substrate, continental shelf, coral, coral reef, intertidal, marine, rubble, sand, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To about 40 m

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [122]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [379–380, fig. 123F]

Röckel, D., Korn, W. & Kohn, A.J. 1995. Manual of the living Conidae. Volume 1: Indo-Pacific Region. Wiesbaden : Hemmen 517 pp. [305, pl. 65, figs 23–26]

Salvat, B. & Rives, C. 1975. Coquillages de Polynésie. Tahiti : Papéete Les editions du pacifique, 391 pp. [355]

Tucker, J.K. & Tenorio, M.J. 2009. Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. ConchBooks pp. 296. [69]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [214, pl. 41, fig. 5]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CONOIDEA	20-May-2015	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		22-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
		10-Nov-2011	MODIFIED