Conus hieroglyphus Duclos 1833 - Hieroglyphic Cone   (Image Paul Kersten)
- Rather squat dark cone, black-brown to brown; spire medium low with some irregular brown markings; shoulder rounded; body whorl strongly convex; body sculpture with 12 beaded spiral lines; aperture wider at the base; lilac with a subcentral white band in old shells faded away; body whorl with white flammules usually interrupted white subcentral band and one at the base; occasionally one below the shoulder.

Distribution: Netherlands Antilles, Virgin Islands, Jamaica
Maximum size: 22 mm

Conus hieroglyphus Duclos 1833   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)

Conus hilli Petuch 1990 - Hill's Cone  (Image from Eddie Hardy's Site)
- According to Tucker: synonym of Conus magellanicus Hwass 1792
- Described as a valid species; shell stocky, broad across shoulder; spire low, flattened; shoulder sharply-angled; body whorl very smooth and shiny; deep purple-blue with blotchy light blue band around midbody marked with 4 rows of tiny reddish-brown dots; spire whorls with white large dark brown flammules; protoconch light orange; aperture narrow; inside purple.

Distribution: Caribbean Panama
Maximum size: 21 mm

Conus hilli Petuch 1990   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)

See also:..http://www.femorale.com.br/shellphotos/detail.asp?species=Conus+hilli+Petuch%2C+1990

Conus hirasei (Kuroda 1956) - Hirase's Cone   (Image Paul Kersten)

Distribution: Japan, Taiwan, Philippines
Maximum size: 85 mm

Conus hirasei Kuroda 1956...46mm...Philippines   (Image Schooner)
Conus hirasei Kuroda 1956...42mm...Philippines    (Image Schooner)
Conus hirasei Kuroda 1956...42mm...Philippines   (Image Schooner)
Conus hirasei Kuroda 1956   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)

Conus hivanus Moolenbeek, Zandbergen & Bouchet 2008    HOLOTYPE
- Last whorl ventricosely conical; on the shoulder of the body whorl are 18 nodules; these nodules continue as a kind of axial ribs until halfway down the body whorl as granules on the spiral bands; lower part of the body whorl only has spiral bands with small grooves in between; color of the protoconch is white translucent; ground color white towards the aperture translucent white

Distribution: Marquesas Archipelago
Normal size: Holotype 15,7 mm

Conus hivanus Moolenbeek, Zandbergen & Bouchet 2008

Conus honkeri Petuch 1988 - Honker's Cone   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
- According to Tucker: synonym of Conus flavescens Sowerby I & II 1834
- Very elongated shell; low spire; smooth, polished body whorl with numerous fine, low spiral cords; spiral rows coarser and more pronounced at enterior end; aperture straight, very narrow; color on dead taken and faded holotype: with two wide, pale yellow-orange bands around mid-body; anterior tip pale apricot; sire whorls with yellow fammules.

Distribution: Venezuela
Maximum size: 37 mm

Conus hopwoodi Tomlin 1936   (Image Paul Kersten)

Distribution: Melanesia, S. China Sea, Queensland Australia, S. Philippines
Maximum size: 32 mm

Conus hopwoodi Tomlin 1936   (Image Paul Kersten) See also: http://www.gastropods.com/7/Shell_5077.html

Conus howelli Iredale 1929 - Howell's Cone   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)

Distribution: New South Wales Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia
Maximum size: 49 mm

Conus howelli Iredale 1929 - Howell's Cone   (Image Eric Monnier)

Conus hunti Wils & Moolenbeek, 1979 - Hunt's cone   Holotype  (Image Bill Fenzan)

- A synonym of Conus sanderi Wils & Moolenbeek 1979 Recognized later by the authors

Conus hyaena Hwass 1792 - Hyaena Cone   (Image Paul Kersten)

(Conus mutabilis Reeve 1844)  - A synonym or a form) of Conus hyaena Hwass 1792.

Distribution: India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia to Hong Kong
Maximum size: 83,2 mm

Conus hyaena Hwass 1792   (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus hyaena Hwass 1792   A yellow specimen (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus hyaena Hwass 1792.   (Image Michel Jolivet)
Conus hyaena Hwass 1792...40 and 44mm...India   (Image Schooner)
Conus hyaena Hwass 1792...34 to 35mm. ..Bright orange specimens...India

Conus hyaena concolor Sowerby 1841   (Image Paul Kersten)
- A subspecies with a nearly straight last whorl and angulate shoulder or onvex last whorl and subangulate shoulder; uniform dark brown.

Distribution: Indonesia, Solomon Islands, New Guinea
Maximum size: 63 mm

Conus hyaena concolor Sowerby 1841   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)

Conus hybridus Kiener 1845 - Hybrid Cone   (Image Paul Kersten)

Distribution: Senegal
Maximum size: 45 mm

Conus hybridus Kiener 1845...40 to 45 mm...Senegal    (Image Schooner)
Conus hybridus Kiener 1845  (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus hybridus Kiener 1845   (Image Paul Kersten)

Conus hypochlorus Tomlin 1937 - Hypo Cone   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
- According to Filmer not a synonym of Conus insculptus Kiener 1845 from which it differs by it's straight spire with no sutural ramps.

Distribution: Philippines
Maximum size: 30 mm

? Conus iansa Petuch 1979  (Image Paul Kersten)
- A species within the "mindanus complex" according to Filmer a form; J. Tucker Pers. Comm. (Kersten): At present I think the bulk of the evidence is that they are different species assuming that they are sympatric (occur together).  It may well be that iansa is an offshore archipelagian subspecies of C. mindanus.  The two seem to differ mostly in how well nodules are developed.  Generally C. iansa has pretty well developed nodules.  These may be developed in small pustulose mindanus but usually they do occur on the earliest whorls (they do in C. iansa).  At present there is little evidence that the two occur together or whether thay are always allopatric. Small shell, shiny, squat with a wide heavily coronated shoulder; anterior half of the last whorl with 8-15 deeply impressed spiral sulci, posterior half smooth; elevated spire; colour variable from white to shades of pink and orange; colour pattern composed of dots and dashes in close-packed spiral rows overlaid with large patches of darker colour; spire with patches of darker colour; aperture white; Renata Gomes(thesis 2004)regards it as a valid species

Distribution: Brazil
Maximum size: 16 mm

Conus iansa Petuch 1979   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)

Conus (Asprella) ichinoseana (Kuroda 1956) - Ichinose Cone   (Image Paul Kersten)

Distribution: Japan to Philippines, Vietnam, New Caledonia, Loyality Is., N.W. Australia
Maximum size: 70 mm

Conus ichinoseana (Kuroda 1956)    (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus ichinoseana (Kuroda 1956)...65 to 66mm...Philippines   (Image Schooner)
Conus ichinoseana (Kuroda 1956)...58mm...Philippines   (Image Schooner)
Conus ichinoseana (Kuroda 1956)...47mmr...Philippines   (Image Schooner)

Conus ignotus Cargile 1998   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
- According to Tucker: synonym of Conus lindae Petuch 1987
- The shell is conical, and light in weight. The last whorl is slightly rounded; angulate shoulder; quite straight. The surface is smooth and glossy with regular light ribbing on the anterior third; spire is low, sutural ramps are decorated with 4 to 5 fine spiral striae, are flat, and are aligned with the spire outline such that the sutures are barely visible, smooth nuclear whorls; color of the body whorl is purple, mauve, violet, or pinkish orange, and may be overlaid with very pale brown blotches and white clouds aligned in indistinct spiral bands near midbody, and may be more or less covered with widely spaced minute brown dots or dashes in spiral rows; apex of the spire and following 3 to 5 teleoconch whorls invariably are colored a bright greenish yellow, and this is an important differentiating character for the species; later spire whorls may be decorated with a few brown, widely spaced radial crescents; aperture shares the same color as the body whorl, becoming violet or purple deeper inside.

Distribution: Nicaragua
Maximum size: 23 mm

Conus (Profundiconus) ikedai (Ninomiya 1987) - Ikeda's Cone   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)

Distribution: Sagami Bay Japan
Maximum size: 30 mm

Conus immelmani Korn 1998 - Immelman's Cone   (Image Paul Kersten)
- Ground colour white in adults; with lilac early postnuclear whorls; last whorl with 3 spiral bands with a reticulated pattern of olive-tan to brown; spiral rows of dark brown dots to short fine axial dashes extend from base to shoulder.

Distribution: South Africa
Maximum size: 89.7 mm

Conus immelmani Korn 1998   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus immelmani Korn 1998   (Image Michel Jolivet)

Conus imperialis Linnaeus 1758 - Imperial Cone   (Image Paul Kersten)

(Conus queketti Smith 1906) - A synonym (subadult specimen) according to RKK;

Distribution: Indo Pacific
Maximum size: 110 mm

Conus imperialis Linnaeus 1758...82 mm...Philippines   (Image Schooner)

Conus imperialis f. compactus Wils 1970 - Western Imperial Cone  (Image Paul Kersten Specimen in the Van Vilsteren Collection)
- A broader form living sympatrically with the nominate.

Conus imperialis f. fuscatus Linnaeus 1758 - Western Imperial Cone  (Image Paul Kersten)
- A form with a narrower last whorl; usually darker colouration; and irregular pattern with mainly axial orientated.

Distribution: East Africa
Maximum size: 110 mm

Conus imperialis f. fuscatus Born 1778   (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus imperialis f. fuscatus Born 1778...55 mm...Zanzibar   (Image Schooner)
Conus imperialis f. fuscatus Born 1778   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)

Conus infinitus Rolán 1999   (Image Paul Kersten)

Distribution: Maio Island, Cape Verde
Maximum size: 21 mm

Conus infinitus Rolán 1999   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)

Conus infrenatus Reeve 1848 - Jeffreys Bay Cone   (Image Paul Kersten)

Distribution: South Africa
Maximum size: 50 mm

Conus infrenatus Reeve 1848   (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus infrenatus Reeve 1848...41.5 mm...South Africa   (Image Schooner)
Conus infrenatus Reeve 1848   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)

Conus inscriptus Reeve 1843 - Engraved Cone  (Image from Paul Kersten)

(Conus keatiformis Shikama & Oishi in Shikama 1977) - A synonym.

Distribution: E. Africa: from Natal to Red Sea, and across the northern Indian Ocean to W. Thailand
Maximum size: 70 mm

Conus inscriptus Reeve 1843   (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus inscriptus Reeve 1843...53 to 54 mm...India   (Image Schooner)
Conus inscriptus Reeve 1843...53mm...India   (Image Schooner)
Conus inscriptus Reeve 1843   An albino specimen   (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus inscriptus Reeve 1843...50 to 58mm...India   (Image Schooner)

?? Conus inscriptus yemenensis Bondarev 1997   (Image Paul Kersten)
- An elusive beastie - - Possibly a valid species or a form of Conus salzmanni G. Raybaudi (Massilia) & Rolán 1997 (personal comm. by Gabriella Raybaudi Massilia).

Distribution: Gulf of Aden, Yemen

?? Conus inscriptus yemenensis Bondarev 1997   (Image Giancarlo Paganelli)

Conus insculptus Kiener 1845   (Image Paul Kersten)

Distribution: Taiwan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Fiji
Maximum size: 35 mm

Conus insculptus Kiener 1845   (Image Paul Kersten)  A dark specimen from the Philippines
Conus insculptus Kiener 1845   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)

Conus iodostoma Reeve 1843 - Violet Mouth Cone   (Image Paul Kersten)

Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: Mozambique and Madagascar
Maximum size: 45 mm

Conus iodostoma Reeve 1843   (Image Paul Kersten)

Conus ione Fulton 1938 - Ione Cone   (Image Paul Kersten)

Distribution: Japan, Philippines, N.W. Australia, Loyalty Is., New Caledonia, Mozambique, Réunion
Maximum size: 75 mm

Conus ione Fulton 1938...55 mm...Philippines   (Image Schooner)
Conus ione Fulton 1938...52.5 mm...Philippines    (Image Schooner)
Conus ione Fulton 1938...50mm...Philippines   (Image Schooner)
Conus ione Fulton 1938...50mm...Japan    (Image Schooner)
Conus ione Fulton 1938   (Image Paul Kersten)

Conus irregularis Sowerby 1858 - Irregular Cone   (Image Paul Kersten)

Distribution: Boavista Island, Cape Verde
Maximum size: 40 mm

Conus irregularis Sowerby 1858   (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus irregularis Sowerby 1858...29 mm...Cape Verde Is   (Image Schooner)
Conus irregularis Sowerby 1858...27 mm...Cape Verde   (Image Schooner)
Conus irregularis Sowerby 1858...25 & 29 mm...Cape Verde   (Image Schooner)
Conus irregularis Sowerby 1858...25 mm...Cape Verde    (Image Schooner)
Conus irregularis Sowerby 1858...24 to 28 mm...Cape Verde   (Image Schooner)
Conus irregularis Sowerby 1858...20 to 21 mm...Cape Verde   (Image Schooner)
Conus irregularis Sowerby 1858   (Image Paul Kersten)

Conus irregularis f. iberogermanicus Röckel, Rolán & Monteiro 1980   (Image Paul Kersten)
- A colour form with an entirely bluish-green colouration, often with one or two narrow whitish spiral bands.

Distribution: Boavista Island, Cape Verde
Maximum size: 32 mm

Conus irregularis f. iberogermanicus Röckel, Rolán & Monteiro 1980   (Image from Paul Kersten)

Conus isabelarum Tenorio & Afonso 2004   Holotype   (Image Manuel Tenorio)
- Last whorl ventricosely conical; a low to moderate spire; shoulder rounded; last whorl a red brown colour with fine spiral lines of darker brown; ground colour is overlaid with irregular white markings; a spiral band of white markings in the middle of the body; on shoulder and spire brown and white blotches; aperture is white often with a purplish diffuse blotch.

Distribution : Maio Island, Cape Verde Archipelago
Maximum size : 30 mm

Conus isabelarum Tenorio & Afonso 2004   (Image Paul Kersten)

Conus (Magelliconus) jacarusoi Petuch 1998   (Image Paul Kersten)
- Possibly a form (Tucker & Filmer) of Conus cardinalis Hwass 1792; smooth and shiny with a flat heavily coronated spire and a checkered band around the edge of the shoulder; brown, pinkish-brown or red-brown with white spire whorls.

Distribution: Bahamas
Maximum size: 25 mm

Conus janus Hwass 1792 - Janus Cone   (Image Paul Kersten)

Distribution: East Africa: Mozambique and Madagascar
Maximum size: 76 mm

Conus janus Hwass 1792...60 and 61 mm...Madagascar   (Image Schooner)
Conus janus Hwass 1792...60mm...Mauritius   (Image Schooner)
Conus janus Hwass 1792   (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus janus Hwass 1792   (Image Paul Kersten)

Conus jaspideus Gmelin 1791 - Jasper Cone   (Image Paul Kersten)
- Spire from high and pointed with slightly concave sides, to medium high with straight sides; shoulder sharply angled; sculpture of the body whorl with incised rings usually to half way up body whorl; body slightly convex with nearly straight sides; larger shells are much plumper; basic colour is white, usually with irregular patches of orange, or yellow brown, which extend to the shoulder; albino shells are common.

Distribution: Caribbean to Brazil
Maximum size: 31 mm

Conus jaspideus Gmelin 1791 - A very dark specimen from a recently discovered population; Roatan, Honduras    (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus jaspideus Gmelin 1791 ...10 - 18 mm... Florida    (Image Schooner)
Conus jaspideus Gmelin 1791   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)

? Conus jaspideus havanensis Aguayo & Farfante 1947
- Most likely is a full-blown species. See main entry.

Conus jaspideus f. stearnsii Conrad 1869 - Stearn's Dusky Cone   (Image Paul Kersten)
- According to Filmer a valid species; See also main entry.

Distribution: E. Florida USA - Yucatan Mexico
Maximum size: 25 mm

Conus jaspideus f. verrucosus Hwass, 1792 -   (Image Paul Kersten)
- A granulose form with plain sharply angular shoulders with beaded shoulder; spire medium high, straight-sided or very slightly concave with growth lines and irregular markings; sculpture with incised spirals, alternating with raised spirals, on which are small raised white nodules; variably colour pattern.

Distribution: Caribbean to Brazil, E. Panama

Conus (Profundiconus) jeanmartini (G. Raybaudi Massilia 1992) - Jean Martin's Cone   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)

Distribution: Réunion Island
Maximum size: 41.7 mm

Conus (Profundiconus) jeanmartini (G. Raybaudi Massilia 1992)   (Image Michel Jolivet) Also: http://www.gastropods.com/1/Shell_4991.html

Conus jickelii Weinkauff 1873 - Jickelli's Cone   (Image Paul Kersten)

Distribution: West Indian Ocean (excluding E. Africa & Madagascar), Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
Maximum size: 40 mm

Conus jickelli Weinkauff 1873...39.5 & 38.5mm... Seriously contrasting display pair of jickles ...Djibouti  (Image Schooner)

Conus (Endemoconus) kanakinus (Richard 1983)   (Image Paul Kersten)

Distribution: New Caledonia
Maximum size: 21 mm

Conus kanakinus (Richard 1983)   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)

? Conus kashiwajimensis Shikama 1971 - Kashiwajima cone
- Considered a subspecies of Conus suturatus Reeve 1844 by Callomon (Venus, 2002)
- According to Filmer a synonym (form) of the latter species
- According to Tucker: synonym of Conus magus Röding 1798

Distribution: Japan to Taiwan
Maximum size: 90 mm

? Conus (Leptoconus) kawamurai (Habe 1962)   (Image Paul Kersten)
- Could be a junior synonym of Conus aratispira Pilsbry, 1894, which is found only in the later Tertiary and Recent (ie, if Callomon is correct) fauna of Japan. This synonymy is discussed in detail by Callomon, 2000, Venus 59: 59-60. However, the question remains: has an application the ICZN been made to formally change the designation? Pending the answer to this question, we will leave things as they are for now.

RKK : (Habe 1962); Filmer: Habe 1962 - Some authors regard it as a subspecies or a form of milneedwardsi Jousseaume 1895.

Conus kawamurai (Habe 1962)   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)

Distribution: Ryukyu Islands, S. Japan
Maximum size: 81 mm

Conus kersteni Tenorio, Afonso & Rolán 2008   - Holotype   (Image Manuel Tenorio)
- Broadly conical shell. Straight or slightly convex sides, angulated shoulder; chestnut brown with small white blotches at the spire; sutural ramps of the spire with 3-4 fine spiral striae; last whorl smooth, except for 5-6 variably spaced spiral ribs in the basal portion and around the columella region; color of the last whorl is light to dark chestnut brown; on this background chestnut brown and white interrupted spiral lines, alternating with white dots or small bars are often present; variability comes from the number and distribution ot the interrupted spiral lines; these spiral lines are sometimes absent; and then the last whorl appears to be uniformly dark chestnut brown; aperture is white, with a violaceus shade in the upper part; inner lip is dark; colemella is white with a violet shade in some specimens

Distribution: Sao Nicolao, Cape Verde
Maximum size: 22,2 mm

Conus (Chelyconus) kinoshitai f. calliginosus (Shikama 1979)   (Image Paul Kersten)
- Described as a form with a pale greyish violet shell with a variably reduced pattern and narrow last whorl.

Distribution: Japan, China Sea, Philippines
Maximum size: 94 mm

Conus kinoshitai f. calliginosus (Shikama 1979)...74mm...Philippines   (Image Schooner)

See also http://www.gastropods.com/1/Shell_5261.html for some good examples.

Conus (Virgiconus) kinoshitai f. tamikoae (Shikama 1973)   (Image Paul Kersten)
- A colour form; yellow colour.

Distribution: Japan, China Sea, Philippines (very rare here)
Maximum size: 94 mm

Conus kinoshitai f. tamikoae (Shikama 1973)   (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus kinoshitai f. tamikoae (Shikama 1973)   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)

Conus kintoki Habe & Kosuge 1970   (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus kintoki Habe & Kosuge 1970...88 mm...Philippines   (Image Schooner)
Conus kintoki Habe & Kosuge 1970...68mm...Philippines    (Image Schooner)
Conus kintoki.Habe & Kosuge 1970...65mm. ..Light peach specimen...Philippines. (Image Schooner)
Conus kintoki Habe & Kosuge 1970...62- 71mm...Philippines   (Image Schooner)
Conus kintoki Habe & Kosuge 1970...58.5mm...Philippines   (Image Schooner)

Conus kirkandersi Petuch 1987 - form of Conus magellanicus Hwass 1792; See there.

Conus (Rhizoconus) klemae (Cotton 1953) - Klem's Cone   (Image Paul Kersten)
- RKK: (Cotton 1953); Filmer: Cotton 1953.

Distribution: Western South Australia
Maximum size: 75 mm

Conus klemae (Cotton 1953)   (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus klemae (Cotton 1953)   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)

?? Conus kohni McLean & Nybakken 1979   -Holotype (Specimen from LACM; picture taken by Hank Chaney SBMNH)
- According to Filmer a synonym or form of Conus xanthicus Dall 1910 - J. Tucker Pers. Comm. (Kersten) C. kohni is clearly different from C. xanthicus. C. kohni has a radula that is different. The operculum of C. kohni is large; it is small in C. xanthicus.  The periostracum of C. kohni is smooth; it is tufted on the body and at the shoulder angle in C. xanthicus. The whorl tops of C. kohni are distinctly concave more or less channeled, whereas they are flat or just slightly concave in C. xanthicus.

Distribution: Eastern Pacific including Galapagos Islands
Maximum size : 35,3 mm

Specimens below all in LACM, pictures taken by J. Tucker:

Conus kohni McLean & Nybakken 1979
Conus kohni McLean & Nybakken 1979
Conus kohni McLean & Nybakken 1979

Conus (Leptoconus) korni (G. Raybaudi Massilia 1993)    (Image Paul Kersten)
- According to Tucker: synonym of Conus biraghii Raybaudi 1992

Distribution: Somalia
Maximum size : 11.1 mm

Conus (Leptoconus) korni (G. Raybaudi Massilia 1993)
(Image from the original description)
Conus (Leptoconus) korni (G. Raybaudi Massilia 1993)  Paratype   (Image Bill Fenzan)

Conus (Asprella) kremerorum (Petuch 1988)   (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
- According to Tucker: synonym of Conus villepiniiFischer & Bernardi 1857
- Small, thin elongated shell; spire whorls low; shoulder sharp-angled; carina and shoulder whorls coronated; ornamented with with row of beads; body whorl smooth and shiny; sculptured with numerous incised sulci, closer-packed at enterior end; incised sulci with tiny pits; spire whorls with 4 large spiral cords; aperture narrow; shell colour yellowish-tan with a wide band of pale orange-tan flammules; scattered pale orange-tan dots on body whorl above wide band of flammules; spire whorls with pale orange-tan flammules.

Distribution: Barbados
Maximum size: 30 mm

Conus (Lilliconus) kuiperi Moolenbeek 2006   (Image from Robert Moolenbeek)

Distribution: Oman
Maximum size: 5 mm