Endangered
Conus bruguieresi
Conus bruguieresi
Conus bruguieresi is a gastropod in the family Conidae (order Neogastropoda), recorded as Endangered and tied to Senegal, Guinea, and French Polynesia.
The gastropod
Gastropods are snails and slugs. The animal is the soft body; the shell, when present, is grown, not worn like a stone.
Range and habitat
Conus bruguieresi is recorded from Senegal, Guinea, French Polynesia, and South Africa.
GBIF currently lists 42 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Snails move on a single foot and feed with a rasping tongue. Island and spring species rarely recolonise once the site is emptied.
In crisis
Conus bruguieresi is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the French Wikipedia article on Conus bruguieresi, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q19614089 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
