One Conus Ebraeus shell measuring 3/4 to 1 1/4 inches . *****

One Conus Ebraeus shell measuring 3/4 to 1 3/4 inches.

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Conus ebraeus are sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

The height of the shell ranges from 1 to 2.5 inches. The width of the shell averages 3/4 inch and the height is approximately 1 inch.

Conus ebraeus are small, squat shells, with a rounded, short spire.

The Conus Abraeus shell is white, with a pattern of blackish squares, sometimes rose-tinted, with three or four revolving bands composed of irregular longitudinal dark chocolate or nearly black markings; these markings also decorate the slightly coronated spire. The aperture is white with clouded bands corresponding with the exterior markings. The surface is more or less striate throughout, but striae are more prominent towards the dark stained base.

These shells are similar to Conus judaeus. The two can be distinguished by close examination of the radular teeth.

The radula is an anatomical structure used by mollusks for feeding, sometimes compared to a tongue. It is a minutely toothed, chitinous ribbon, which is typically used for scraping or cutting food before the food enters the esophagus. The radula is unique to the mollusks, and is found in every class of mollusk except the bivalves, which instead use cilia, waving filaments that bring minute organisms to the mouth.

Conus ebraeus is one of the most widely distributed members of its genus and dwells in shallow water, tropical regions throughout the Indo-West and eastern Pacific, from the Red Sea to the shores of the Americas.

Conus ebraeus lives near rocky shores, lower eulittoral, often under boulders.

The littoral zone, also called litoral or nearshore, is the part of a sea, lake, or river that is close to the shore. In coastal ecology, the littoral zone includes the intertidal zone extending from the high water mark (which is rarely inundated), to coastal areas that are permanently submerged — known as the foreshore — and the terms are often used interchangeably. However, the geographical meaning of littoral zone extends well beyond the intertidal zone to include all neritic waters within the bounds of continental shelves.

Species within the genus Conus are predatory and venomous capable of stinging humans.

While the focal prey of Conus ebraeus are eunicid polychaetes (i.e., members of the genus Palola) at most locations in the Indo-West Pacific (e.g., the Maldives, eastern Indian Ocean, Great Barrier Reef, Okinawa and Guam), at Hawaii and the Seychelles this species predominantly preys on nereid polychaetes. These results suggest that Conus ebraeus exhibits geographic variation in dietary specialization.

Scientific classification

Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Mollusca

Class: Gastropoda

Subclass: Caenogastropoda

Order: Neogastropoda

Superfamily: Conoidea

Family: Conidae

Genus: Conus

Species: Conus ebraeus

Binomial name: Conus ebraeus

Linnaeus, 1758

(REF:Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp Archived 2017-06-13 at the Wayback Machine )(REF: Linnaeus C. (1758). Systema Naturae, 10th ed., 1 )(REF: Tryon G. W. (1884). Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Volume 6. Conidae,)(REF: Jiménez-Tenorio, Manuel. (2016). Cone radular anatomy as a proxy for phylogeny. DOI:10.13140/RG.2.1.2961.8803.)(REF: The United States Navy divides littoral regions into several zones. From https://ile-lms-adp.nko.navy.mil/cnet/customcontent/content/primary_pro_mil_education/PPME_JO/Primary_PME_R4_V08/Primary_PME_V44_THINKS/Naval_Warfare/C2_Naval_Forces/CWC_Conc)