File:The five glories of the genus Conus.jpg

This image contains the seashells conventionally called vernacularly, in the conquiliological collection, the five glories of the genus Conus.

• Conus gloriamaris Chemnitz, 1777[1]; from Indo-Pacific - the Glory-of-the-Sea Cone.
• Conus bengalensis (Okutani, 1968)[2]; from Indo-Pacific - the Glory-of-Bengal Cone.
• Conus granulatus Linnaeus, 1758[3] (two images); from the Caribbean Sea - the Glory-of-the-Atlantic Cone.
• Conus milneedwardsi Jousseaume, 1894[4]; from Indo-Pacific - the Glory-of-India Cone.
• Conus glorioceanus Poppe & Tagaro, 2009[5]; from Indo-Pacific - the Glory-of-the-Oceans Cone.[6]

All of these names of the species in the middle were given, over the space of 200 years, after the discovery of the existence of Conus gloriamaris, a species that was considered extremely difficult to obtain until the second half of the 20th century; and they're also named for their scarcity of obtaining, in the past, and for their impressive format and pattern.[7] The last one - in the bottom of the image - is from the early of 21st century, classified by G.T. Poppe & S.P. Tagaro as Conus glorioceanus; in the text "A spectacular new Conus (Conidae) from the Philippines"; published in June 2009, in Visaya 2 (4): 52-56.[8]

• ABBOTT, R. Tucker; DANCE, S. Peter (1982). Compendium of Seashells. A color Guide to More than 4.200 of the World's Marine Shells. New York: E. P. Dutton. p. 246/269. 412 pp. ISBN 0-525-93269-0
• CATTANEO-VIETTI, Riccardo; DONEDDU, Mauro; TRAINITO, Egidio (2016). MAN and SHELLS. Molluscs in the History. Xarja, United Arab Emirates: Bentham Science Publishers. pp. 180-181. 340 pp. ISBN 978-1-68108-226-4

Footnoteː The shells in this assembled photograph are not respected in their proportionality, when related to each other; the image owners are quoted here:

• Conus gloriamaris - Photographer Dane A. Penland; from the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., United States. Image by Smithsonian Institution; posted on Flickr by Public.Resource.Org. Larger and darker image than the original (image from Wikimedia Commons).
• Conus bengalensis - From the collection of Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (image from Wikimedia Commons).
• Conus granulatus - Chromatophor (user; Wikimedia Commons).
• Conus milneedwardsi - From the collection of Naturalis Biodiversity Center; Leiden, Netherlands (image posted in Wikimedia Commons).
• Conus glorioceanus - Indici (user; Wikimedia Commons: darker image than the original).