Pygmaeconus wallacei

Pygmaeconus wallacei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

Pygmaeconus wallacei
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Conidae
Genus:	Pygmaeconus
Species:	P. wallacei
Binomial name
Pygmaeconus wallacei (Lorenz & Morrison, 2004)
Synonyms
Conus (Pseudolilliconus) wallacei (Lorenz & Morrison, 2004) · Conus wallacei (Lorenz & Morrison, 2004) Lilliconus wallacei Lorenz & Morrison, 2004 Pseudolilliconus wallacei (Lorenz & Morrison, 2004)

Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans.

Description

The length of the shell attains 6 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Sulawesi, Indonesia.

References

• 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 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyu055. PMC 4541476. PMID 26300576.
• Lorenz, F. and Morrison, H. 2004b. The genus Lilliconus G. Raybaudi Massilia (Gastropoda: Conidae) in the Western Pacific, with the description of Lilliconus wallacei sp. nov. Schriften zur Malakozoologie 21:29–34.
• Filmer R.M. (2001). A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758–1998. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 388pp.

External links

• The Conus Biodiversity website
• "Pseudolilliconus wallacei". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• Puillandre, N.; Tenorio, M.J. (2017). "A question of rank: DNA sequences and radula characters reveal a new genus of cone snails (Gastropoda: Conidae)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 83 (2): 200–210. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyx011.
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.