Endangered
Conus henckesi
Conus henckesi
Conus henckesi is a marine snail species from the genus Conus.
The gastropod
Conus henckesi was described by Coltro in 2004.
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 henckesi is recorded from Brazil.
GBIF currently lists 4 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
Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and poisonous.
Conus henckesi 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 Dutch Wikipedia article on Conus henckesi, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q1609241 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.
