Abstract

This study documents new distribution records of three species of the family Conidae in the Andaman Islands: Conus augur [Lightfoot], 1786, C. sponsalis Hwass in Bruguière, 1792, and C. varius Linnaeus, 1758. The latter two records are first reports for India.

Highlights

  • Conidae is a large family of marine gastropod molluscs with more than 800 extant species worldwide (MolluscaBase eds. 2020)

  • The members of Conidae contribute substantially to high molluscan diversity, especially in the inter-tropical zone and are important ecologically, because a maximum of 36 species co-occur on a single reef platform

  • 2001); evolutionarily, since its diversification rate is high among gastropods (Stanley 2007); and medically, as the venom produced by these snails promise new drug discoveries (Puillandre et al 2011)

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Summary

Introduction

Franklin et al (2013) added the records of four species to the Conidae of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. This study documents new distribution records of three species (Conus augur [Lightfoot], 1786, C. sponsalis Hwass in Bruguière, 1792, and C. varius Linnaeus, 1758) of the family Conidae from the Andaman Islands.

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