Conus archetypus Crosse, 1865, in northwestern Panama

摘要

During my visit to Bocas del Toro Archipelago, northwestern Panama (see American Conchologist vol. 38, no. 2, June 2010), I collected some puzzling "little red cones" that did not look like any of their congeners from the western Caribbean. I had consulted Olsson & McGinty (1958), who had done extensive collecting in the archipelago; among the cones listed, however, only the taxon "Conus regius cardinalis Hwass" seemed to be similar enough to qualify as a misidentification for this cone. I had collected only one specimen of C. cardinalis, but had on hand five specimens of the cone in question, so I presume that Olsson and McGinty did collect this species, as four of my specimens were collected in the drift line and exposed reef, not SCUBA diving. Moreover, they were collected at three different stations: NE Isla Colon (Figs. 1-3), Bastimento Norte (Figs. 4-5), and Zapatillas Key No. 1 (Figs. 6-8). The specimens were put away until recently, when I needed to get back to them because I was preparing a report on mollusks from the archipelago (Garcia, 2010).