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Taxonomy
Family:
CONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Conidae (Family)
> Conus (Genus)
> chaldaeus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Conus (Virroconus) chaldaeus (Röding, 1798) accepted, alternate representation
=Conus brunneus var. pemphigus Dall, 1910
=Conus vermiculatus Lamarck, 1810
=Cucullus chaldaeus Röding, 1798
=Virroconus chaldaeus (Röding, 1798)
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Taxonomy
Family:
CONIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Conoidea (Superfamily)
> Conidae (Family)
> Conus (Genus)
> chaldaeus (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Conus (Virroconus) chaldaeus (Röding, 1798) accepted, alternate representation
=Conus brunneus var. pemphigus Dall, 1910
=Conus vermiculatus Lamarck, 1810
=Cucullus chaldaeus Röding, 1798
=Virroconus chaldaeus (Röding, 1798)
Details: Conus chaldaeus (Röding, 1798)
Size/Grows to:
Height 59mm
Distribution:
Indo-Pacific, Red Sea, Central America, Galapagos, Kermadec Islands
Geographical Range:
K
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • 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 (p.13)
  • Tucker, J.K., Tenorio, M.J. 2009 Systematic classification of Recent and Fossil Conoidean Gastropods: with keys to the genera of cone shells, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany (p.131)
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.227)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil