{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Conasprella armiger | image = Conasprella armiger 001.jpg | image_caption = Shell and protoconch of ''Conasprella armiger'' (holotype of the synonym ''Conus clarki'' at the Smithsonian Institution) | authority =(Crosse, 1858) | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn">{{cite iucn |author=Petuch, E.|date=2013 |title=''Conus armiger'' |volume=2013 |article-number=e.T192612A2127745|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T192612A2127745.en|access-date=12 February 2025}}</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|420202|''Conus armiger'' Crosse, 1858||27 March 2010}}</ref> | synonyms = * ''Conasprella (Dalliconus) armiger'' <small>(Crosse, 1858)</small> · accepted, alternate representation * ''Conus armiger'' <small>Crosse, 1858</small> (original combination) * ''Conus clarki'' <small>Rehder & Abbott, 1951</small> * ''Conus crenulatus'' <small>Kiener, 1845</small> (invalid: junior homonym of ''Conus crenulatus'' <small>Deshayes, 1835</small>; ''Conus armiger'' is a replacement name) * ''Conus frisbeyae'' <small>Clench & Pulley, 1952</small> * ''Dalliconus armiger'' <small>(Crosse, 1858)</small> | display_parents = 3 }}
'''''Conasprella armiger''''' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.<ref name="WoRMS" />
Like all species within the genus ''Conasprella'', these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of stinging humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.
==Distribution== This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and off the Lesser Antilles.
== Description == The maximum recorded shell length is 40 mm.<ref name="Welch 2010">Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". ''PLoS ONE'' '''5'''(1): e8776. {{doi|10.1371/journal.pone.0008776|doi-access=free}}.</ref>
== Habitat == Minimum recorded depth is 35 m.<ref name="Welch 2010"/> Maximum recorded depth is 227 m.<ref name="Welch 2010"/>
==References== {{Reflist}} * Rehder, H. A. & Abbott, R. T. 1951. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 41 (1): 22, figure 1–6. * Clench, W. J. and Pulley, T. E. 1952. Notes on some marine shells from the Gulf of Mexico with a description of a new species of Conus. Texas Journal of Science 1:59-58, 1 pl. * [https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyu055 Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015). ''One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails.'' Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81: 1–23]
==External links== * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2316332 Crosse H. (1858). Observations sur le genre Cone et description de trois espèces nouvelles, avec un catalogue alphabétique des Cônes actuellement connus. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie. ser. 2, 10: 113–127, pl. 2 [March 1858], 150–157 [April 1858], 199–209] * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88016 Kiener, L.C. (1844–1850). Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes. Vol. 2. Famille des Enroulées. Genre Cone (Conus, Lam.), pp. 1–379, pl. 1-111 [pp. 1–48 (1846); 49–160 (1847); 161–192 (1848); 193–240 (1849); 241-[379](assumed to be 1850); plates 4,6 (1844); 2–3, 5, 7–32, 34–36, 38, 40–50 (1845); 33, 37, 39, 51–52, 54–56, 57–68, 74–77 (1846); 1, 69–73, 78–103 (1847); 104–106 (1848); 107 (1849); 108–111 (1850)]. Paris, Rousseau & J.B. Baillière] * [http://biology.burke.washington.edu/conus/catalogue/index.php The ''Conus'' Biodiversity website] * {{Gastropods.com|key=3|id=3973|title=''Dalliconus armiger armiger''|access-date=15 January 2012}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Conasprella Armiger}} armiger Category:Gastropods described in 1858 Category:Taxa named by Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse
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