Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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Animalia | Mollusca | Gastropoda | Neogastropoda | Conidae |
Scientific Name: | Conus gondwanensis Röckel & Moolenbeek, 1995 |
Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 |
Year Published: | 2013 |
Date Assessed: | 2011-08-09 |
Assessor(s): | Bouchet, P. |
Reviewer(s): | Seddon, M. & Peters, H. |
Facilitator/Compiler(s): | Hines, A., Peters, H. & Webb, E. |
Justification: This species is endemic to New Caledonia. In the 1990s and early 2000s there was commercial dredging in New Caledonia for sharkteeth and shells including this species, however, these practices have mostly ceased from exhaustion of sharkteeth and closure to dredging of species rich seamounts on the Norfolk Ridge. There are still stocks from these previous dredges of this species available for the specimen shell trade. Some of the area exploited for shark teeth and shells have likely been excessively exploited, but not believed to affect the global population of this species. There is some control on the amount of off shore dredging in New Caledonia and it is very inaccessible unless dredged. It is listed as Least Concern. |
Range Description: | This species is endemic to New Caledonia (Moolenbeek 2008). It has a depth distribution of 250-400 m. | ||||||
Countries occurrence: | Native: New Caledonia | ||||||
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Population: | There are currently no data in the literature concerning population. It is a deep and rare species. | ||
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Habitat and Ecology: | This species is found occurring at depths of between 250 and 400 m on rubble, gravel and coarse bottoms (Moolenbeek 2008). It is generally found as large as 20-23 mm. |
Systems: | Marine |
Use and Trade: |
In the 1990s and early 2000s there was commercial dredging in New Caledonia for sharkteeth and shells including this species, however, these practices have mostly ceased from exhaustion of sharkteeth and closure to dredging of species rich seamounts on the Norfolk Ridge (P. Bouchet pers comm. 2011). There are still stocks from these previous dredges of this species available for the specimen shell trade, however, uncommonly available. |
Major Threat(s): |
Some of the area exploited for shark teeth and shells have likely been excessively exploited, but not believed to affect the global population of this species. |
Conservation Actions: |
There is some control on the amount of off shore dredging in New Caledonia and very inaccesible unless dredged. |
Citation: | Bouchet, P. 2013. Conus gondwanensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T192862A2175887. . Downloaded on 27 April 2018. |
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