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Conus riosi

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ19795490 ↗
Source-derived summary

Conus riosi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

This snail is predatory and venomous and is capable of stinging humans.

Description

The length of the shell attains 40 mm.

Distribution

This marine species of cone snail occurs off Martinique.

References

Monnier E. & Limpalaër L. (2016). Revision of the Dauciconus daucus complex (Gastropoda: Conidae). Description of two new species: Dauciconus jacquescolombi n.sp. from Martinique and Dauciconus massemini n.sp. from French Guiana. Xenophora Taxonomy.

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“Conus riosi” enters the record as species of mollusc. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Conus, riosi and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Conus, riosi and species.
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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19795490. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Conus riosi” 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.