Species Conus (Harmoniconus) musicus Hwass in Bruguiere, 1792

Museums

Regional Maps

• Conus musicus Bruguière, M. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 1 i–xviii, 757 pp. [629, no. 25].

  Type data:

   Lectotype Les mers de la Chine (China).
• Conus ceylanensis Bruguière, M. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 1 i–xviii, 757 pp. [636].

  Type data:

   Neotype ZMA 3.83.001, Les côtes de l'isle de Ceylan.
• Conus mighelsi Kiener, L.C. 1845. Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Rousseau et Baillière Vol. 2. [pl. 103, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, la mer des Indes.
• Conus acutus Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1857. Thesaurus Conchyliorum. Vol. 3 pp. 16–20. [16, sp. 119, pl. 6, fig. 142] [junior homonym; not Conus acutus Anton, 1839 and Conus acutus Deshayes, 1865].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Ceylon.

 

Generic Combinations

• Conus (Harmoniconus) musicus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792. —
  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 [9]
• Harmoniconus musicus (Hwass in Bruguiere, 1792). —
  Tucker, J.K. & Tenorio, M.J. 2009. Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. ConchBooks pp. 296. [97, 174, pl. 7, fig. 7]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from Maldives to Fiji

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Algal substrate, coral reef, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 18 m

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2004. Conus musicus Hwass in Bruguiere, 1792. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Conidae/Pages/Conus_musicus.htm (date accessed 21/11/2011)

Habe, T. 1964. Shells of the western Pacific in color. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 2 233 pp., 66 pls. [116, pl. 37, fig. 4] (as Virroconus musicus)

Nevill, G. & Nevill, H. 1875. Descriptions of new marine Mollusca from the Indian Ocean. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal n.s. 44(2): 83–104, pls 7, 8 (as Conus ceylanensis)

Oostingh, C.H. 1925. Report on a collection of recent shells from Obi and Halmahera, Molluccas. Mededeelingen van de Landbouwhoogeschool te Wageningen 29(1): 1–362 [196–197] (as Conus ceylanensis)

Röckel, D., Korn, W. & Kohn, A.J. 1995. Manual of the living Conidae. Volume 1: Indo-Pacific Region. Wiesbaden : Hemmen 517 pp. [69, pl. 8, figs 9–21]

Tucker, J.K. & Tenorio, M.J. 2009. Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. ConchBooks pp. 296. [97, 174, pl. 7, fig. 7]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [211, pl. 46, figs 5a–b, 6a–b]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [112] (Music Cone)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CONOIDEA	25-May-2015	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		21-Nov-2011	MODIFIED
		10-Nov-2011	MODIFIED