Conus fumigatus Hwass in Bruguiere , 1792

Albano, Paolo G., Steger, Jan, Bakker, Piet A. J., Bogi, Cesare, Bosnjak, Marija, Guy-Haim, Tamar, Huseyinoglu, Mehmet Fatih, LaFollette, Patrick I., Lubinevsky, Hadas, Mulas, Martina, Stockinger, Martina, Azzarone, Michele & Sabelli, Bruno, 2021, Numerous new records of tropical non-indigenous species in the Eastern Mediterranean highlight the challenges of their recognition and identification, ZooKeys 1010, pp. 1-95 : 1

Conus fumigatus Hwass in Bruguiere, 1792 Figure 20

New records.

Israel • 3 shs; north of Atlit; 32.7433°N, 34.9067°E; depth 40 m; 20 Sep. 2016; coarse biogenic sediment in a pool among rocks covered by coralligenous formations; grab; HELM project (sample NG40_2M); NHMW-MO-112930/LM/0175; size of the largest shell (illustrated shell 2, Figure 20D-F ): H 7.2 mm, W 4.0 mm.

Remarks.

Conus fumigatus was first recorded from the Mediterranean Sea in Libya ( Röckel 1986) but not recorded again for three decades until a recent report from Syria ( Ammar 2018). This is the first finding in Israel, filling the distributional gap from the Suez Canal northward; only shells of juveniles have been found so far.

Figures

Figure 20. Conus fumigatus Hwass in Bruguiere, 1792, NHMW-MO- 112930 / LM / 0175, north of Atlit, Israel, HELM project (sample NG 40 _ 2 M) A-C Shell 1: front (A), side (B) and back (C) views D-F Shell 2: front (D), side (E) and back (F) views. Scale bars: 1 mm.