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Conasprella bajanensis
Conasprella bajanensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
Like all species within the genus Conasprella, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of stinging humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.
From the article Conasprella bajanensis on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Despite its name associating this (obviously-continental-shelf) Cone shell with Barbados, it is highly likely the type material for this species was acquired from shrimpers at one time based in Barbados, but who used to trawl for shrimp off Guyana, some 300 miles South of Barbados. The size of the shell varies between 20 mm and 35 mm.
Range & habitat
This marine, continental-shelf species occurs off Tobago; also off French Guiana. Despite many deepwater dredgings over time, off West coast Barbados, by John Lewis(1960s), by Finn Sander(1970s) and by David Hunt(1980s)
this species is yet to be brought to light from 'Bajan' waters.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1114035.