{{Short description|Species of sea snail}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Conus lugubris | image = Conus lugubris 001.jpg | image_caption = Drawing of a shell of ''Conus lugubris'' | status = EX | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 10 October 2025">{{cite iucn |author=Tenorio, M.J. |date=2025 |title=''Conus lugubris'' |volume=2025 |article-number=e.T192286A246857823 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T192286A246857823.en |access-date=10 October 2025}}</ref> | authority = Reeve, 1849<ref>Reeve, L. A., 1849. Monograph of the genus Conus. Conchologia Iconica, i. Conus. Suppl</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|224925|''Conus lugubris'' Reeve, 1849||27 March 2010}}</ref> | synonyms = * ''Africonus lugubris'' <small>(Reeve, 1849)</small> * ''Conus hieroglyphicus'' <small>Kiener</small> * ''Conus lugubris fuscus'' <small>Barros e Cunha, 1933</small> (invalid: junior homonym of ''Conus mediterraneus'' var. ''fusca'' <small>Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882</small>) * ''Conus (Lautoconus) lugubris'' <small>Reeve, 1849</small> - accepted, alternate representation | display_parents = 3 }}

'''''Conus lugubris''''' 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 ''Conus'', these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of stinging humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.

==Description== The size of the shell varies between 10&nbsp;mm and 24&nbsp;mm. The shell is finely striated, rudely ridged at the base with the ridges few and distant. The spire is conspicuously grooved. Its color is chocolate-black, obscurely reticulated here and there with numerous aggregated small white spots.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/manualconch06tryorich G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences]</ref>

==Distribution== This species occurred only on the north coast of the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde.<ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Tenorio, M.J. |date=2012 |title=''Conus lugubris'' |volume=2012 |article-number=e.T192286A2065921 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T192286A2065921.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}</ref> It was locally abundant in the Matiota Beach area and the last living specimen was seen in 1987, with tourism and coastal development leading to its extinction. <ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021" />

==References== {{Reflist}} * Rolán E., 2005. ''Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda'' * [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== {{Commons category}} * [http://biology.burke.washington.edu/conus/catalogue/index.php The ''Conus'' Biodiversity website] * {{Gastropods.com|key=1|id=27261|title=''Africonus lugubris''|access-date=16 January 2019}}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Conus Lugubris}} lugubris Category:Gastropods described in 1849 Category:Gastropods of Cape Verde Category:Taxa named by Lovell Augustus Reeve