Conus cashi explained

Conus cashi is a fossil species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.^[1]

Description

The size of the shell attains 26 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is only found as a fossil in the Neogene of the Dominican Republic.

References

• Hendricks J.R. (2015). Glowing seashells: diversity of fossilized coloration patterns on coral reef-associated cone snail (Gastropoda: Conidae) shells from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic. PLoS ONE. 10(4): e0120924

External links

• To World Register of Marine Species

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. (2015). Conus cashi. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=843163 on 2015-10-07