African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Conus maldivus Hwass, 1792

AphiaID

215539 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215539)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Conus Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Conus maldivus Hwass, 1792

Synonymised names

Conus planaxis Deshayes, 1863 · unaccepted

Conus spirogloxus Deshayes, 1863 · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

Hwass C.H. (1792). Cone. Conus. Pp. 586-757, in Bruguière J.G.. Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. volume 1. Pancoucke, Paris. [13 Feb. 1792; date after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33703372#page/428/mode/1up [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Conus maldivus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215539 on 2026-01-09

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Conus maldivus Hwass, 1792. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215539 on 2026-01-09

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-11-19 09:36:22Z

created

Fondo, Esther

2001-12-15 16:49:27Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2009-11-02 12:29:43Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2009-11-12 10:06:28Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2011-09-03 06:08:04Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2014-03-13 20:57:46Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2022-08-29 07:11:35Z

changed

Neubauer, Thomas A.

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original description Hwass C.H. (1792). Cone. Conus. Pp. 586-757, in Bruguière J.G.. Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. volume 1. Pancoucke, Paris. [13 Feb. 1792; date after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33703372#page/428/mode/1up [details]

original description (of Conus planaxis Deshayes, 1863) Deshayes, G. P. (1863). Catalogue des mollusques de l'île de la Réunion (Bourbon). Pp. 1-144. In Maillard, L. (Ed.) Notes sur l'Ile de la Réunion. Dentu, Paris. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13068117
page(s): 134, pl. 13, figs 11, 12. [details]

original description (of Conus spirogloxus Deshayes, 1863) Deshayes, G. P. (1863). Catalogue des mollusques de l'île de la Réunion (Bourbon). Pp. 1-144. In Maillard, L. (Ed.) Notes sur l'Ile de la Réunion. Dentu, Paris. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13068117
page(s): 135, pl. 13, figs 13, 14. [details]

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 Steyn, D. G. & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore shells of southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 gastropods. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.
page(s): 227. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Conus planaxis Deshayes, 1863)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Conus spirogloxus Deshayes, 1863)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Conus maldivus)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To Malacopics (Conus maldivus Hwass, 1792 Maldives, ex coll. Natuurmuseum Enschede .)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection

Unreviewed

To Malacopics (Conus maldivus Hwass, 1792 Maldives, ex coll. Natuurmuseum Enschede .)

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