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Conus empressae

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ1605283 ↗
Source-derived summary

Conus empressae is a species of sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of stinging humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.

Description

The size of the shell attains 25 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines and Australia.

References

Lorenz, F. 2001. Notes on some species of Conidae and Cypraeidae from Indonesia with the description of Conus empressae sp. nov. (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Schriften zur Malakozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur-Cismar 18:15–20, pl.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Conus empressae” as species of mollusc. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Conus, empressae and species can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as species of mollusc. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1605283. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Conus empressae” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.