Conus adversarius - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Conus adversarius Temporal range: Zanclean-Gelsian
A specimen of Conus adversarius; note the sinistral shape of the shell, which is unique to the species.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Conidae
Genus:	Conus
Species:	†C. adversarius
Binomial name
Conus adversarius Conrad, 1840

Conus adversarius is an extinct species of Conus, a venomous sea snail. The sea snail lived in the southeastern United States. The species lived for over 4 million years in the Pliocene. The species died out in the ice age.

The first person to find out about the species was Timothy Abbott Conrad. Timothy named the species after the left-handed shape of the shell, which is different from all other Conus species.

• A. A. Olsson and A. Harbison. 1953. Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Monograph 8:1-457
• J. R. DuBar. 1958. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Late Neogene strata of the Caloosahatchee River area of southern Florida. Florida Geological Survey Bulletin 40:1-267
• A. A. Olsson and R. E. Petit. 1964. Some Neogene Mollusca from Florida and the Carolinas. Bulletins of American Paleontology 47(217):509-575
• J. R. Hendricks. 2008. The genus Conus (Mollusca: Neogastropoda) in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Southeastern United States. Bulletins of American Paleontology 375:1-178