Kingdom Animalia Clade Caenogastropoda Clade Neogastropoda Scientific name Conus granulatus Rank Species | Class Gastropoda Clade Hypsogastropoda Superfamily Conoidea Phylum Mollusca | |
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Similar Conus daucus, Conasprella jaspidea, Conus mus, Conus attenuatus, Conus | ||
Conus granulatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
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Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Western Atlantic, at depths to 50 metres, and in the Caribbean Sea and in the Gulf of Mexico.
Description
The maximum recorded shell length is 64.1 mm.
Shell fragments are known that would suggest a maximum size around 77 mm.
The shell is regularly grooved throughout the body whorl, with the intertices plane or granular. The spire is striate, often gradate. The color is orange-red, raised portions with very narrow chestnut revolving lines, white clouded, especially in the middle, forming an irregular band, which is mottled and bordered with chestnut. The interior of the aperture is rosy.
Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. Maximum recorded depth is 30 m.
At Barbados, the species seems to prefer offshore banking reefs where the water is clean, clear and well oxygenated
although in past times it appears to have inhabited much shallower waters close to shore, before environmental degradation.