Conus magus, Magus cone : fisheries

Conus magus   Linnaeus, 1758

Magus cone

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Conus magus

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Gastropoda | Neogastropoda | Conidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Benthic; depth range 1 - 3 m (Ref. 101250).  Tropical

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Western Central Atlantic and Western Pacific: Red Sea.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 9.4 cm SHL male/unsexed; (Ref. 122460)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Found in shallow subtidal (Ref. 3204) up to possibly 100 m for juveniles (Ref. 98471). Inhabits sandy coral reef and shallow bays, hiding underneath rocks and dead corals (Ref. 98471), in shallow waters and intertidal shores (Ref. 128042). Feeds on fish and polychaetes (Ref. 3204).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

This species is a non-broadcast spawner. Life cycle does not include trocophore stage. Also Ref. 833.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Rosenberg, G. 2005 Malacolog 4.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca. [WWW database (version 4.1.0)] URL http://www.malacolog.org/ (Ref. 3446)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 27 October 2011

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Venomous (Ref. 130663)

Human uses

Fisheries: of potential interest
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Internet sources

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 24.8 - 29.3, mean 28.5 (based on 2297 cells).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

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