Opinions and declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature

Opinions and declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature

Opinions and declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature

The specimen was collected and deposited in the Zoological Reference Collection of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum at the National University of Singapore, under the catalogue number ZRC.MOL.5714. The current record of Conus recluzianus is interesting because there have been no confirmed records of this species since Lim (1969: 45, 49, fig. 1) first recorded this species from Singapore, under the name Conus malacanus (see Rockel, 1984: 10). The specimen figured by Lim (1969: 45, 49, fig. 1) is clearly referable to Conus recluzianus. In a later work, Lim & Wee (1992: 56, pl. 13, unnumbered figure at left of bottom row) also illustrated a specimen from Singapore, with the name correctly given as Conus recluzianus. It is interesting to note that although more than 25 species of cone snails have been recorded from Singapore to date (e.g., Lim & Wee, 1992; Tan & Woo, 2010: 48, 49), these snails appear to be exceedingly rare in Singapore waters at present (unpublished data). Between the records in the 1960s (Orr, 1968; Lim, 1969) and the present specimen, there appears to have been no published mention of any Conus species in Singapore (see Lim & Wee, 1992; and references cited in Tan & Woo, 2010)