Ancient Seashell Coloration Patterns in UV Light (IMAGE)

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Ancient Seashell Coloration Patterns in UV Light

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Three of the newly described species, <i>Conus carlottae</i> (left column), <i>Conus garrisoni</i> (middle column), and <i>Conus bellacoensis </i>(right column) photographed under regular light (top row) and ultraviolet light (middle row). The brightly fluorescing regions revealed under ultraviolet light would have been darkly pigmented in life (bottom row).

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Jonathan Hendricks

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