WoRMS

WoRMS taxon details

Conus floccatus G. B. Sowerby I, 1841

AphiaID

426503 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:426503)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Conus Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Conus floccatus G. B. Sowerby I, 1841

Synonymised names

Conus (Pionoconus) floccatus G. B. Sowerby I, 1841 · alternative representation

Conus circumsignatus Crosse, 1865 · unaccepted

Conus magdalenae Kiener, 1847 · unaccepted

Textilia floccata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1841) · unaccepted

Environment

marine, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Sowerby, G. B. I. (1833-1841). Conus. In: The Conchological Illustrations; or coloured figures of hitherto unfigured Recent shells. London, privately published. Parts 24-25, 28-29, 32-33, 36-37, 54-57, 147-148, 151-158, fig. 1-137. Catalogue and index, 4 pp. [Parts 27-37, figs 1-58 (1833); parts 54-57, figs 59-91 (1834); parts 147-148, figs 92-102 (1838); parts 151-158, figs 103-137 (1839); index (1841)]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11916181
page(s): Index 4, ref. to the Conchological Illustrations part 153, fig. 112, where it was listed as C. dux Lamarck [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Conus floccatus G. B. Sowerby I, 1841. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=426503 on 2025-03-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-10-27 10:23:08Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2011-07-02 09:54:03Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Sowerby, G. B. I. (1833-1841). Conus. In: The Conchological Illustrations; or coloured figures of hitherto unfigured Recent shells. London, privately published. Parts 24-25, 28-29, 32-33, 36-37, 54-57, 147-148, 151-158, fig. 1-137. Catalogue and index, 4 pp. [Parts 27-37, figs 1-58 (1833); parts 54-57, figs 59-91 (1834); parts 147-148, figs 92-102 (1838); parts 151-158, figs 103-137 (1839); index (1841)]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11916181
page(s): Index 4, ref. to the Conchological Illustrations part 153, fig. 112, where it was listed as C. dux Lamarck [details]

original description (of Conus circumsignatus Crosse, 1865) Crosse, H. (1865). Description de cônes nouveaux provenant de la collection Cuming. Journal de Conchyliologie. 13: 299-315, pls 10-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15133910
page(s): 311, pl. 10 fig. 4 [details]

original description (of Conus magdalenae Kiener, 1847) Kiener, L.C. (1844-1850). Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes. Vol. 2. Famille des Enroulées. Genre Cone (Conus, Lin.), pp. 1-379, pl. 1-111 [pp. 1-48 (1846); 49-160 (1847); 161-192 (1848); 193-240 (1849); 241-[379] (assumed to be 1850); plates 4,6 (1844); 2-3, 5, 7-32, 34-36, 38, 40-50 (1845); 33, 37, 39, 51-52, 54-56, 57-68, 74-77 (1846); 1, 69-73, 78-103 (1847); 104-106 (1848); 107 (1849); 108-111 (1850)]. Paris, Rousseau & J.B. Baillière., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88016
page(s): pl. 69 fig. 4 [details]

basis of record Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1 [details]

Other

additional source Filmer, R. M. (2001). A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758 - 1998. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 388 pp. [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors