Conus hughmorrisoni, a new species of cone snail from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea (Gastropoda: Conidae)

  • Felix Lorenz
  • Nicolas Puillandre Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité ISYEB – UMR 7205 – CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, 57 rue Cuvier, CP26, F-75005, Paris
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2015.129
Keywords: COI mitochondrial gene, Conidae, Conus hughmorrisoni sp. nov., new species, New Ireland

Abstract

Based on newly collected material from the Kavieng Lagoon Biodiversity Survey, we describe a new species of cone snail, Conus hughmorrisoni sp. nov., from the vicinity of Kavieng, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. It closely resembles the New Caledonian C. exiguus and the Philippine C. hanshassi, but differs from these species by having more numerous shoulder tubercles, by the shell’s sculpturing and details of the color pattern. We also sequenced a fragment of the mitochondrial COI gene of five specimens collected alive. All possessed very similar sequences (genetic distances < 0.3%), different from all the COI sequences of cone snails available in GenBank (genetic distances > 10%).

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Published
2015-07-16
How to Cite
Lorenz, F., & Puillandre, N. (2015). Conus hughmorrisoni, a new species of cone snail from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea (Gastropoda: Conidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, (129). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2015.129
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No. 129 (2015): Conus hughmorrisoni, a new species of cone snail from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea (Gastropoda: Conidae)
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Zoology
Copyright (c) 2015 Felix Lorenz, Nicolas Puillandre

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