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Conidae - Coninae: Conus anemone Lamarck, 1810 ('anemone cone')
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Synonym(s):
anemone Lamarck, 1810
maculosus Sowerby, 1833
roseo-tinctus Sowerby, 1866
rossiteri Brazier, 1870
carmeli Tenison Woods, 1877
remo Brazier, 1898
flindersi Brazier, 1898
peronianus Iredale, 1931
incinctus Fenaux, 1942
nitidissimus Fenaux, 1942
saundersi Cotton, 1945
singletoni Cotton, 1945.
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Figures a-b: 38 mm, Flinders Island, Tas (N). Figure c: 36 mm, Edystone Point, Tas (E). Figure d: 30 mm, Cape Portland, Tas (N). Figure e: 32 mm, Stanley, Tas (N). Figure f: 35 mm, Rocky Cape, Tas (N). Figure g: 24 mm, Somerset, Tas (N). Figure h: 22 mm, Binalong Bay, Tas (E). Figure i: 12 mm, Cape Portland, Tas (N). |
Typical shell-length 60 mm. Animal venomous – handle with care. Lives intertidally and subtidally amongst rocks and seaweed.
Endemic to southeastern and southwestern Australia (NSW, TAS, VIC, SA and WA). In Tasmania this is a widespread species; common in the N; uncommon towards the S.
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