THE NAUTILUS 128(2):55–58, 2014 Page 55 Attenuiconus marileeae, a new species of cone (Gastropoda: Conidae: Puncticulinae) from Curac¸ao M.G. Harasewych Department of Invertebrate Zoology National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution P.O. Box 37012 Washington, DC 20013-7012 USA
[email protected] ABSTRACT This new species is described and compared to Attenuiconus attenuatus (Reeve, 1844), the type species Attenuiconus marileeae new species is described from deep of Attenuiconus, a wide ranging species that occurs in reefs off southeastern Curac¸ao. It resembles A. attenuatus, southeastern Florida and throughout the Caribbean, A. honkeri, and A. aureonimbosus in size and general proportion of the shell, but is readily distinguished on the basis of its distinc- including Curac¸ao, as well as to specimens of Sandericonus tive color pattern, which consists of a vivid orange-red base color sanderi (Wils and Moolenbeek, 1979), the type spe- with three bands of irregular, white flammules. Attenuiconus cies of Sandericonus, which was also present in the bot- marileeae was collected at substantially greater depths than any tle samples. of its Caribbean congeners. Only A. aureonimbosus,fromthe northeastern Gulf of Mexico, inhabits comparable depths. Like all species of Attenuiconus, nearly all specimens A. marileeae SYSTEMATICS have one or more major repaired breaks indicative of unsuccess- ful attacks by crustaceans. Family Conidae Fleming, 1822 Subfamily Puncticulinae Tucker and Tenorio, 2009 Additional Keywords: Deep Reef, Curasub,