MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
Sowerby, G. B. II. (1866). Appendix to monograph of the genus <i>Conus</i>. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), <i>Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells</i>. Vol. 3 (24-25): 325–331, pl. 286–289. London, privately published. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15940752 [details]
original description
(of Conus fusiformis Lamarck, 1810) Lamarck [J.-B. M. de]. (1810). Sur la détermination des espèces parmi les animaux sans vertèbres, et particulièrement parmi les Mollusques testacés. <em>Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 15: 20-40; [Suite des espèces du genre Cône] 263-286, 422-454; [Suite du genre Porcelaine] 16: 89-114., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3546607 [details]
original description
(of Conus atractus Tomlin, 1937) Tomlin, J. R. le B. (1937). Catalogue of recent and fossil cones. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 22(4): 205-330.
page(s): 206 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2189: 1–218., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/z02189p218f.pdf [details]
additional source
Filmer, R. M. (2001). <i>A Catalogue of Nomenclature and Taxonomy in the Living Conidae 1758 - 1998</i>. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 388 pp. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy There is taxonomic uncertainty as to whether this is a synonym (northern form?) of Conus anemone or a separate, valid species. As there are conservation implications, a precautionary approach should be taken, and C. compressus is here tentatively listed as a valid species. The real C. compressus has a distribution restricted from Geraldton to Shark Bay, but in recent years the name has been mistakenly applied to a tall-spired form of anemone from South Australia. [H. Morrison, pers. com. October 2011] [details]