Conasprella vanhyningi (Rehder, 1944) is a small cone snail that may reach up to 25 mm in size. Its shell is covered with small bumps, or pustules, and is usually salmon-pink to white in color. The species was named (as a subspecies of Conus verrucosus) by Smithsonian zoologist Harald A. Rehder (1907–1996) for Thomas Van Hyning (1861-1948), first malacologist, curator, and director of the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. The shell in the illustration was dredged off Pompano Beach on the east coast of Florida. Pompano Beach is the *type locality* of the species (place of origin of the holotype, or main specimen studied in the original description).
Read Dr Rehder’s brief article from 1944 here
