MolluscaBase - Conus namocanus Hwass, 1792

WoRMS taxon details

Conus namocanus Hwass, 1792

AphiaID

215450 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215450)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Conus Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Conus namocanus Hwass, 1792

Synonymised names

Conus (Rhizoconus) namocanus Hwass, 1792 · alternative representation

Conus laevigatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1858 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of Conus...)

invalid: junior homonym of Conus laevigatus Link, 1807; C. laevis Crosse, 1858, is a replacement name

Conus laevis Crosse, 1858 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of Conus...)

invalid: junior homonym of Conus laevis Gmelin, 1791

Rhizoconus namocanus (Hwass, 1792) · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

Bruguière, J. G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers, volume 1. Paris: Pancoucke. Pp. i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006
page(s): 712 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Conus namocanus Hwass, 1792. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215450 on 2025-04-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2001-12-15 16:49:27Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2009-11-02 12:29:43Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2011-08-14 10:20:19Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2012-07-04 18:46:28Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2022-08-29 07:11:35Z

changed

Neubauer, Thomas A.

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description Bruguière, J. G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers, volume 1. Paris: Pancoucke. Pp. i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006
page(s): 712 [details]

original description (of Conus laevigatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1858) Sowerby, G. B. II. (1857-1858). Monograph of the genus Conus. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 3 (17): 1-24, pls. 187-195 [1-9](1857); 3 (18): 25-56, pl. 196-210 [10-24] (1858). London, privately published. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15940426
page(s): 27, pl. 193, figs. 149, 150; pl. 195, fig. 207 [details]

original description (of Conus laevis Crosse, 1858) Crosse, H. (1858). Observations sur le genre Cone et description de trois espèces nouvelles, avec un catalogue alphabétique des Cônes actuellement connus. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie. ser. 2, 10: 113-127, pl. 2 [March 1858], 150-157 [April 1858], 199-209 [May, 1858]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2316332
page(s): 200 [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 Röckel, D.; Korn, W. & Kohn, A. J. (1995). Manual of the Living Conidae. Volume 1: Indo-Pacific region. Verlag Christa Hemmen, Weisbaden. 517 pp. , available online at http://www.theconecollector.com/RKK/PDF/RKK3.pdf
page(s): 135, pl. 23 figs 16-19 [fig. 20 is Conus peli] [details]

additional source Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
page(s): 120 [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): 228. [details]