Conus hirmetzli (Kovacs & Vician, 2013)

Lautoconus hirmetzli (Kovacs & Vician, 2013)

Descrizione e caratteristiche:

Large shell with high and turriculate spire, paucispiral protoconch, conical and elongate body whorl, narrow aperture, and asymmetrically curved subsutural flexure⁽²⁾. The shell is large, elongate, and biconical. The spire is high, pointed, and turriculate, with 33–35° spire angle. The outline is straight on the juvenile specimens, while slightly concave on the adults. The protoconch consists of 2 whorls. The adult teleoconch consists of 12 high spiral whorls. The early 6 teleoconch whorls are angulate and weakly tuberculate in the middle; the late whorls are rounded and smooth. The shoulder of the body whorl is subangulate to rounded. The body whorl is smooth, elongate, conical, the outline is straight. Colour pattern cannot be traced. The aperture is narrow and straight. The subsutural flexure is asymmetrically curved and deep⁽²⁾.


Conus hirmetzli ⁽²⁾ 2nd Paratype private collection of Tamás Hirmetzl mm. 130,0 x 34,0 Miocene – Badeniano Letkes - Ungheria	Conus hirmetzli ⁽²⁾ 1st Paratype HNHM PAL 2013.4.1 mm. 132,0 x 42,0 Miocene – Badeniano Letkes - Ungheria

Conus hirmetzli ⁽²⁾ 3rd Paratype private collection of Tamás Hirmetzl mm. 67,0 x 17,0 Miocene – Badeniano Letkes - Ungheria	Conus hirmetzli ⁽²⁾ 4th Paratype private collection of Tamás Hirmetzl mm. 33,0 x 9,0 Miocene – Badeniano Letkes - Ungheria

Conus hirmetzli

mm. 49,8 x 14,2

Miocene – Badeniano

Letkes – Ungheria

[AZFC 523-01]

In this specimen, the color model has been preserved quite well, at least in part, and seems to consist of a brownish background, with darker spiral lines on the last whorl; the same lines can also be seen at the base of the 1st paratype. Within these spiral lines there are numerous white spots. Growth lines are also highlighted by a dark brown color.