File:The four glories of the genus Conus between the 18th and 20th century.jpg

This image contains the four glories of the genus Conus between the 18th and 20th century, in the conquiliological collections of these period.

• 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.

All of these names of the species - below - were given, over the space of 200 years, after the discovery of the existence of Conus gloriamaris - on top - 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.[5] In the early of the 21st century, a new species, 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; was placed between then in these nomenclature[6]; named as Glory-of-the-Oceans Cone.[7]

• 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).