abbas
Hwass to cylindraceus Broderip & Sowerby
- page 1
dalli
Stearns to lizarum Raybaudi & Da Motta
- p. 2
locumtenens
Blumenbach to ritae Petuch - p. 3

Conus roberti Richard 2009
(Image from the original description, courtesy George Richard)
A species within the mazei-complex; very close to
Conus mcgintyi Pilsbry 1955
Distribution: Guadeloupe, French Antilles
Maximum size: 51.2 mm
Conus roeckeli Rolán 1980 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Boavista Island Cape Verde
Maximum size: 23.2 mm
Conus
roeckeli Rolán 1980 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus
roeckeli Rolán 1980 (Image from Gene
Mallory's Site)
Conus rolani Röckel 1986 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Taiwan to Philippines, New Guinea,
Indonesia
Maximum size: 70 mm
Conus rolani Röckel
1986..53.5 mm...Japan (Image Schooner)
Conus
rolani Röckel 1986 (Image from Gene
Mallory's Site)
? Conus (Purpuriconus)
rosalindensis (Petuch 1998) (Image Paul
Kersten)
- Filmer: a valid species or possibly a form of Conus cardinalis Hwass
1792; smooth shell with a high polish; spire low, shoulder sharply angled, coronated
with 14-16 knobs per whorl; shell color dark orange tan with a broad blue-white mid-body
band which is overlaid with scattered large dark tan patches and numerous closely
packed brown longitudinal flammules; spire orange-tan with large white patches and
numerous flammules; protoconch and early whorls bright red; aperture pinkish-purple
-
Distribution: Nicaragua, Honduras
Maximum size: 26 mm
Conus (Purpuriconus) rosalindensis {Petuch 1998) (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
?
Conus rosemaryae Petuch 1990 - Rosemary's Cone (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
- Filmer: a valid species or possibly a form of Conus garciae da Motta, 1982
- According to Tucker: a synonym of Conus philippii Kiener 1845
Extremely pyriform shell, turnip shaped with concave whorls; body whorl polished
and shiny with numerous low threads; spire whorls smooth; body whorl white overlaid
with bright yellow-orange flammules; spire whorls overlaid with scattered large yellow-orange
patches and flammules; anterior tip of the shell pale orange; protoconch and early
whorls orange; aperture white.
Distribution: Caribbean Panama Nicaragua
Maximum size: 25 mm
? Conus
roseorapum Raybaudi & da Motta 1990 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- RKK see it as a form of Conus recluzianus Bernardi 1853. We (both of us)
disagree: it is too consistantly different from recluzianus to be simply a
form. There is no intergradation between the two.
(Conus (Rhizoconus) gloriakiiensis (Kuroda & Ito 1961)) - A synonym. Dealers often confuse this matter.
Distribution: Philippines, S. China Sea
Maximum size: 80 mm
Conus roseorapum Raybaudi
& da Motta 1990 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus roseorapum Raybaudi
& da Motta 1990...40 mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus
roseorapum Raybaudi & da Motta 1990 (Image
from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus roseorapum Raybaudi
& da Motta 1990...47 mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus roseorapum Raybaudi
& da Motta 1990...40 mm...Philippines (Image
Schooner)
Conus royaikeniVeldsman 2010 Roi Aiken's Cone
A species closely related to Conus natalis Sowerby II 1858
Distribution: Southern Kwazulu, South Africa
Maximum size: 61,9 mm
Conus rufimaculosus Macpherson 1959. Red Stained Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: East Australia
Maximum size: 50 mm
Conus rufimaculosus Macpherson
1959..35 mm...Australia. (Image Schooner)
Conus rufimaculosus
Macpherson 1959...36-37mm...Australia (Image Schooner)
Conus
rufimaculosus Macpherson 1959 (Image from
Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus rutilus Menke 1843 - Burnished Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: South Australia
Maximum size: 15 mm
Conus rutilus Menke 1843 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus (Leptoconus) saecularis Melvill 1898 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: W. Thailand, N.E. Malaysia, Ryukyus,
Philippines, Solomon Is., New Guinea
Maximum size: 40 mm
Conus saecularis Melvill
1898 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus saecularis
Melvill 1898...20mm...Philippines (Image
Schooner)
Conus
saecularis Melvill 1898 (Image from Gene
Mallory's Site)
(?? Conus sagarinoi Fenzan 2004 ) (Image from Bill Fenzan) - A synonym of terryni Tenorio 2004. The latter will probably end up having priority over sagarinoi -
Distribution: Aliguay Philippines
Maximum size : 31,5 mm
Conus sagei Korn & G. Raybaudi Massilia 1993 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Gulf of Aden
Maximum size : 8.7 mm
Conus sagei Korn & G. Raybaudi Massilia 1993 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus sahlbergi
da Motta & Harland 1986 (Image Paul Kersten)
- According to Tucker: a synonym of Conus magellanicus Hwass 1792
-Shell small with a depressed conic spire; roseate protoconch; smooth; body whorl
is smooth and glossy with angulate, sharply keeled shoulder sides are flat and tapering
with about six sulci at the basal end; polymorphic shell, body whorl solid coloured,
mostly orange or yellow, also white, purple and greenish tan; spire more faintly
tinted; a band of a row of distinctly connected blotches of a light tint; aperture
same colour as body whorl.
Distribution: Bahamas
Maximum size: 19 mm
Conus salreiensis Rolán 1980 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Boavista Island Cape Verde
Maximum size: 25.7 mm
Conus salreiensis Rolán
1980...20 to 21 mm...Cape Verde (Image
Schooner)
Conus
salreiensis Rolán 1980 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus salzmanni
Raybaudi & Rolán 1997 (Image Paul
Kersten)
- Protoconch with 1.75 to 2 whorls; body whorl smooth; light brown dots forming spiral
bands; flammules on the spire.
Distribution: Somalia Gulf of Aden
Maximum size: 39 mm
Conus sanderi Wils
& Moolenbeek 1979 (Image Paul Kersten)
- This species is often called:
(Conus carioca Petuch 1986) - a junior synonym.
Distribution: Barbados, Surinam, E. Brazil
Maximum size: 57 mm
Conus sanderi Wils & Moolenbeek 1979 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus sanguinolentus Quoy & Gaimard 1834 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Indo-Pacific
Maximum size: 45 mm
Conus sanguinolentus
Quoy & Gaimard 1834 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus
sanguinolentus Quoy & Gaimard 1834 (Image
from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus saragasae Rolán 1986 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Sao Vicente Island and Santa Luzia
Island, Cape Verde
Maximum size: 25 mm
See also: http://www.gastropods.com/7/Shell_11137.html
Conus saragasae Rolán 1986 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus sartii
Korn Niederhöfer & Röckel 2004 - holotype
(From a web page on the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart site)
- Last body whorl ventricosely conical; shoulder angulated; body whorl with deep
incised lines; colour of the body white brown to dark brown blotches and flammules;
also on spire apex white; spire concave.
Distribution: Madagascar
Maximum size: 25 mm
See also: http://www.gastropods.com/5/Shell_27265.html
Conus sauros Garcia
2006 - Holotype and paratype (Image from the
original description)
- Teleoconch of 8 whorls, whorls shouldered, carinated, suture deep, protoconch whitish,
axial sculpture of numerous arched threads on shoulder, evanescing at carina, last
whorl with numerous relatively wide, low, flat axial threads, threads becoming weaker
and narrower when crossing spiral cords, spiral sculpture of two to four strong threads
posterior to carina, creating reticulations at shoulder when crossing over axial
elements, threads followed by a heavy, nodulose, otherwise smooth cord and one or
two undulating threads anterior to carina, last whorl with flat, evenly distributed
spiral cords, cords as wide as interspaces, minutely wrinkled bu axial threads; colour
light cream
Distribution: Western Gulf of Mexico: Louisiana
to Mexico
Maximum size: 30 mm
Conus (Rhizoconus) sazanka Shikama 1970 - Sazanka's Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Japan, Philippines, E. Indonesia,
New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Hawaii, Natal S. Africa, Réunion, Madagascar, Somalia
Maximum size: 50 mm
Conus sazanka
Shikama 1970 Yellow form (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus sazanka Shikama
1970...43 mm....Philippines (Image
Schooner)
Conus sazanka Shikama
1970...21 mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus sazanka Shikama
1970 A violet coloured specimen (Image Paul
Kersten)
Conus
sazanka Shikama 1970 (Image from Gene Mallory's
Site)
(Conus scabriusculus Dillwyn, 1817) - A junior synonym of Conus coffeae Gmelin 1791; See there.
? Conus scalaris
Valenciennes 1832 (Image Paul Kersten)
- Regarded by some authors (Kohn and J. Tucker (pers. comm.- Kersten)) as a form
of Conus gradatus Wood 1828.
Distribution: Baja California Mexico - Acapulco
Mexico
Maximum size: 50 mm
Conus scalaris Valenciennes
1832...50.5 mm...Mexico (Image
Schooner)
Conus scalptus Reeve 1843 (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
Distribution: S. Philippines, Papua New Guinea
Maximum size: 50 mm
(Conus schepmani Fulton 1936) - synonym of Conus comatosa Pilsbry 1904; See there.
Conus schirrmeisteri
Coltro 2004 (Image Paul Kersten)
- status disputed; Filmer: valid; Tucker a synonym of Conus iansa Petuch 1979:
a very small shell; body with a strong deflection, nodulose spire with about ten
irregular white or brown nodules on the shoulder; suture with white and brown cord;
body whorl with incised lines; aperture wide with a fine white margin; colour body
whorl dark red-brown with irregular white blotches and dots.
Distribution: Brazil
Maximum size: 11 mm
Conus (Profundiconus) scopulicola (Okutani 1972) (Image Gene Mallory's Site)
Distribution: S.E. Honshu Japan
Maximum size: 22 mm
Conus scopulorum Van Mol Tursch & Kempf 1971 (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
Distribution: Brazil: Para Ceara Atol das Rocas
Fernando de Noronha Rio Grande do Norte (According to the Malocolog site)
Maximum size: 26 mm
Conus (Leptoconus) sculletti (Marsh 1962) - Scullett's Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: E. Australia
Maximum size: 60 mm
Conus sculletti (Marsh
1962)...38mm....Australia
(Image Schooner)
Conus sculletti (Marsh
1962)...35 to 40 mm...Australia (Image Schooner)
Conus
sculletti (Marsh 1962) (Image from Gene
Mallory's Site)
Conus sculpturatus Röckel & da Motta 1985 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Philippines
Maximum size: 44 mm
Conus
sculpturatus Röckel & da Motta 1985 (Image
from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus
sculpturatus Röckel & da Motta 1985 (Image
Alexander Medvedev)
Conus segravei Gatliff 1891 - A form of Conus clarus Smith 1881; See there.
(Conus selectus Adams, A., 1855) (nomen oblitum - invalid synonym of kerstitchi Walls, 1978; See there -)
Conus selenae Van Mol Tursch & Kempf 1967 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Brazil
Maximum size: 20 mm
Conus selenae
Van Mol Tursch & Kempf 1967 (Image Paul
Kersten)
Conus
selenae Van Mol Tursch & Kempf 1967 (Image
from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus
sennottorum Rehder & Abbott 1951 (Image
from Gene Mallory's Site)
- According to Tucker: a synonym of Conus philippii Kiener 1845
Distribution: W Florida USA, Yucatan Mexico
Maximum size: 47 mm
Conus sennottorum
Rehder & Abbott 1951 (Image Dream Shells)
Conus sennottorum
Rehder & Abbott 1951 (Image Dream Shells)
? Conus sennottorum
gibsonsmithorum Petuch 1986 (Image Paul
Kersten)
-Described as a valid species; Regarded by most as a subspecies, but according to
Filmer a form; Shell turnip-shaped; body whorl smooth and shiny with anterior one-third
having heavily grooving and thick spiral cords; shoulder sharp edged; shell pale-cream-yellow
with a pale tan band around middle; spire pale yellow becoming tan on early whorls.
Distribution: Columbia, Venezuela
Maximum size: 24 mm
? Conus sennottorum gibsonsmithorum Petuch 1986 (Image from Eddie Hardy's Site)
See also: http://shell.kwansei.ac.jp/~shell/pic_book/data31/r003035.html
Conus serranegrae Rolán 1990 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Sal Island, Cape Verde
Normal size: 18 mm
Conus serranegrae
Rolán 1990 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus serranegrae
Rolán 1990...12 to 14mm....Cape Verde (Image
Schooner)
Conus serranegrae Rolán
1990...14 mm....Cape
Verde (Image Schooner)
Conus
serranegrae Rolán 1990 (Image from
Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus sertacinctus Röckel 1986 (Image Paul Kersten)
(Conus solomonensis Delsaerdt 1993) - A synonym, some other believe it is valid
Distribution: Philippines, S. India, Flores, Solomons
Maximum size: 40 mm
Conus sertacinctus
Röckel 1986 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus sertacinctus
Röckel 1986 A dark colored specimen from the Solomon population (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus
sertacinctus Röckel 1986 (Image from
Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus
sertacinctus Röckel 1986 (Image Michel Jolivet)
Conus sharmiensis Wils, E. 1986 - a form of Conus parvatus Walls 1979; See there.
Conus shikamai Coomans Moolenbeek & Wils 1985
Distribution: Taiwan to Philippines, Indonesia.
Maximum size: 70 mm
Conus
shikamai Coomans Moolenbeek & Wils 1985
(Image Paul Kersten)
Conus shikamai Coomans
Moolenbeek & Wils 1985...52 to 54 mm...Philippines (Image
Schooner)
Conus shikamai Coomans
Moolenbeek & Wils 1985...50 mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
(Conus sibogae Schepman 1913) - synonym of Conus lizardensis Crosse 1865; See there.
Conus sieboldii Reeve 1848 - Siebold's Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Japan & Taiwan
Maximum size: 114.5 mm
Conus sieboldii
Reeve 1848...76 mm...Japan
(Image Schooner)
Conus sieboldii
Reeve 1848...64 mm...Japan
(Image Schooner)
??Conus simonis
Bozzetti - Simone's Cone Holotype (Image
Luigi Bozzetti )
This could turn up to be a color form of Conus nigropunctatus Sowerby II 1858
Distribution: South Eastern Madagascar
Conus simonis Bozzetti 2010 - Simone's Cone Paratype (Image Luigo Bozzetti)
- Conus sindon Reeve 1844 is a distinctive form of Conus omaria Hwass 1792 or Conus pennaceus Born 1778; See there.
Conus smirna Bartsch & Rehder 1943 - Smirna Cone (Image from RKK)
Distribution: Hawaii and probably New Caledonia
Maximum size: 84 mm
(Conus soaresi Trovão; 1978) is a junior synonym of Conus cloveri Walls 1978; See there.
? Conus solangeae
Bozzetti 2004 (Image Paul Kersten)
Status disputed: Filmer: valid or possibly a subspecies of Conus infrenatus
Reeve 1848; or timorensis Hwass 1792
spire obconical, glossy,smooth and prominent protoconch; shoulder subangulate, convex
sided on adapical third, straight above; carved suture with sloghtly and irregular
wrinkled margin; concave subsutural ramp covered by thick radial streaks, last body
whorl smooth with about 15 radial spiral bands at the base; colour body whorl, apex
and aperture pink orange-salmon; siphonal fasciole whitish axial flammules at the
last body whorl darker; colour pattern made up by spiral rows of alternate white
and orange-salmon tending to form three strips; one below the shoulder, one below
mid body, one and one at the base.
Distribution : Madagascar
Maximum size : 26.3 mm
? Conus solangeae
Bozzetti 2004 (Image from the Coneshell
Homepage of Mr. Paganelli)
Conus
solomonensis Delsaerdt 1992 (Image Paul
Kersten) Distribution: Philippines, Solomon Islands
Conus sertacinctus
Röckel 1986 A specimen from the Palawan population (Image Paul Kersten)
(Conus sowerbii Reeve 1849) - synonym of Conus praecellens
Adams 1854; See there.
The status of this species is disputed. Some authors (Filmer) believe it is valid, others believe it is a form
of Conus sertacinctus Röckel 1986
Maximum size: 40 mm
Conus sertacinctus
Röckel 1986 A specimen from the Palawan population (Image Paul Kersten)
(Conus sozoni Bartsch 1939) - synonym of Conus delessertii Recluz 1843; See there.
Conus
speciosissimus Reeve 1848 (Image from Gene Mallory's
Site) - Filmer: a valid species or a senior synonymof Conus jucundus Sowerby, 1887
- According to Tucker: a synonym of Conus cardinalis Hwass 1792
Conus spectrum Linnaeus 1758 - Specter Cone 70mm (Image Paul Kersten)
(Conus spectrum lacteus Lamarck 1810) - A synonym(pure white form) of spectrum Linnaeus
Distribution: Indonesia to Philippines and Ryukyus
to Australia and New Guinea
Maximum size: 80 mm
Conus spectrum Linnaeus
1758...50 mm...Tahiti (Image
Schooner)
Conus spectrum f. conspersus Reeve 1844 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A form with a yellow colour-;
Distribution: Philippines; Indonesia
Maximum size: 45 mm
Conus spectrum f. conspersus Reeve 1844...34mm...Australia (Image
Schooner)
Conus
spectrum f. conspersus
Reeve 1844 (Image from Gene
Mallory's Site)
Conus
spectrum f.
daphne Boivin 1864 (Image from Gene Mallory's
Site)
- A form with a ventricoely conical to ovate shape; solid yellow with fine brown
lines on the last whorl; aperture yellowish pink.
Distribution: Indonesia
Maximum size: 35 mm
Conus spectrum f. dolium Boivin 1864 - image needed.
- Last whorl rather broad and ventricose, with large variably confluent orange-brown
areas, spire remarkebly low; very similar to form pica Adams & Reeve.
Distribution: Philippines
Conus
spectrum f.
filamentosus Reeve 1849 (Image from Gene
Mallory's Site)
- A form.
Distribution: Philippines
Maximum size: 60 mm
(Conus
spectrum lacteus Lamarck 1810) (Image from
Gene Mallory's Site - for informational use only)
- Known only from the holotype! ; probable subadult spectrum Linnaeus
- White shell with widely spaced spiral grooves, subangulate shoulder and relatively
low spire.
Conus spectrum f. pica Adams & Reeve 1848 (Image Paul Kersten)
- A distinct variant living sympatric with the other forms; white shell with dark
brown irregular blotches.
Distribution: E. Indies, Australia, Philippines
Maximum size: 42 mm
Conus spectrum f. pica Adams & Reeve 1848 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus spectrum f. pica Adams & Reeve 1848 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus
spectrumf.
stillatus Reeve 1849 - Stillate Cone (Image
from Gene Mallory's Site)
- A form with fine dark brown axial lines on the last whorl.
Distribution: Australia
Maximum size: 52.4 mm
Conus spectrum f. stillatus Reeve 1849...43 mm...Australia (Image Schooner)
Conus spectrum f. stillatus Reeve 1849...41 mm...Australia (Image Schooner)
Conus spectrum f. stillatus Reeve 1849...33
36mm...Australia (Image Schooner)
Conus spectrum f. stillatus Reeve 1849 (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus sphacelatus
Sowerby II, 1833 (Image Paul Kersten)
- synonym of Conus
magellanicus Hwass 1792 or Conus jucundus Sowerby III 1887 according to
Tucker; valid according to Filmer
Distribution: Caribbean: Jamaica
Maximum size: 19 mm
Conus spiceri Bartsch & Rehder 1943 is a subspecies of Conus coelinae Crosse 1858; See there.
Conus spiculum Reeve, 1849 is a synonym (juvenile) of Conus generalis Linnaeus, 1767 or possibly a valid species; the holotype seems to be quite different from what is currently sold as spiculum
Conus spirofilis Habe & Kosuge 1970 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Japan to Philippines
Maximum size: 37 mm
Conus spirofilis
Habe & Kosuge 1970...19 to 20 mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus spirofilis Habe
& Kosuge 1970...16 to 18 mm...Philippines
(Image Schooner)
Conus splendidulus Sowerby 1833 - Clay Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Aden, N. Somalia, Laccadives
Maximum size: 70 mm
Conus splendidulus Sowerby 1833 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus sponsalis Hwass 1792 - Marriage Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Indo-Pacific
Maximum size: 32 mm
Conus sponsalis Hwass 1792 (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus sponsalis f. nanus Sowerby 1833 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A colour form (despite its name!): pattern on the last whorl reduced to a few flecks
and a small number of dotted or dashed lines or completely immaculate; ground colour
with a distinct blue shade.
Distribution: Indo-Pacific
Maximum size: 34 mm
Conus sponsalis f. nanus Sowerby 1833 (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus sponsalis nux Broderip
1833 - Nut Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
- Now regarded as a valid species - See main entry.
Conus
spurius Gmelin 1791 - West Indian Alphabet Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
- Spire low to very low; smooth, polished; body whorl many sipral rows of small square
dashes with usually an upper and lower band of splotches of colour, sometimes covering
a large area, sometimes almost absent; usually a middle band of plain dashes; colour
usually bright orange-brown, sometimes very dark reddish-brown and black-brown.
(Conus proteus Hwass 1792) - synonym of Conus spurius Gmelin 1791.
Distribution: Caribbean
Maximum size: 104 mm
Conus spurius Gmelin
1791...82 mm...Curacao (Image Schooner)
Conus spurius Gmelin
1791...79mm...Venezuela (Image Schooner)
Conus spurius Gmelin
1791...59 mm...Florida (Image
Schooner)
Conus spurius Gmelin
1791...56& 57mm...Pine Is. Sound
(Image Schooner)
Conus spurius Gmelin
1791...47.5 mm...Columbia (Image Schooner)
?? Conus spurius
arubaensis Nowell-Usticke G.W. 1968 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- Probably synonymous with baylei Jousseaume 1872 (a subspecies of Conus
spurius Gmelin 1791 below), or at best a local population; low spire, concave
body narrower with almost straight sides; body whorl smooth with very fine growth
lines and weak spirals; about 15 rows of squarish patches and double rows of "characters";
about 4 or 5 dotted rows; colour red-brown or mahogany -
Distribution: Believe it or not, Aruba
?? Conus spurius
arubaensis Nowell-Usticke G.W. 1968 (Image
Paul Kersten) A yellow specimen
Conus spurius
atlanticus Clench 1942 - Chinese Alphabet Cone (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A subspecies; spire low, but bigger than spurius and with a sharp high point;
body whorl rather dull; dots and dashes appear thicker; colour dull orange-red to
dark red-brown.
Distribution: Florida - Eastern Venezuela
Maximum size: 80 mm
Conus spurius atlanticus
Clench 1942...62 mm...Florida
(Image Schooner)
Conus spurius atlanticus
Clench 1942...54 mm...Florida (Image Schooner)
Conus spurius aureofasciatus Rehder & Abbott 1951 - Gold Banded Cone (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
- A subspecies.
Distribution: Yucatan Mexico
Maximum size: 104 mm
Conus
spurius baylei Jousseaume F.P. 1872
- A subspecies.
Distribution: Netherlands Antilles, Venezuela
Maximum size: 55 mm
Conus spurius baylei Jousseaume F.P. 1872 (Image from Gene Mallory's Site, as f. arubaensis)
Conus spurius
lorenzianus Dillwyn 1817 - Lorenz's Cone (Image
from Paul Kersten)
- A subspecies with red brown regular dots.
(Conus spurius phlogopus Tomlin 1937) - A synonym of lorenzianus Dillwyn 1817, which is a subspecies of spurius Gmelin 1791.
(Conus undatus Kiener 1845) - synonym of Conus lorenzianus Dillwyn 1817 (a subspecies of Conus spurius Gmelin 1791
Distribution: Florida - Eastern Venezuela
Maximum size: 80 mm
Conus spurius lorenzianus
Dillwyn 1817...55.5 mm...E. Columbia
(Image Schooner)
Conus spurius lorenzianus
Dillwyn 1817...51 to 53 mm (Image Schooner)
Conus spurius lorenzianus
Dillwyn 1817...42 to 51 mms...Panama
(Image Schooner)
Conus
spurius f.
ochraceus Lamarck 1810 (Image from Gene
Mallory's Site)
- A colour form of spurius: body whorl covered with bright orange to orange-red
big blotches and sparse white body colour -
Distribution: Caribbean
Maximum size: 75 mm
See also: http://www.gastropods.com/7/Shell_8527.html
?Conus stanfieldi
Petuch 1988 - Stanfield's Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
- According to Tucker: a synonym of Conus cardinalis Hwass 1792
Distribution: Bahamas
Conus stearnsii
Conrad 1869 - Stearn's Dusky Cone ...(Image Paul Kersten)
- Regarded by Filmer as a valid species; some authors (Tucker) consider it as a form
of Conus jaspideus Gmelin 1791.
Distribution: E. Florida USA - Yucatan Mexico
Maximum size: 25 mm
Conus stercusmuscarum Linnaeus 1758 - Fly Spec Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Western Pacific: Japan to Marshall
Is., New Guinea and Solomon Islands
Maximum size: 65 mm
Conus stercusmuscarum...Linnaeus
1758...61 mm...Philippines (Image
Schooner)
Conus stercusmuscarum...Linnaeus
1758...48 mm...Philippines (Image
Schooner)
Conus stercusmuscarum...Linnaeus
1758 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus stimpsoni Dall 1902 - Stimpson's Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: E. Florida to Colombia
Maximum size: 52 mm
Conus stimpsoni Dall 1902 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus stocki Coomans & Moolenbeek 1990 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Gulf of Oman, Masirah Is., Pakistan
Maximum size: 45 mm
Conus stocki Coomans & Moolenbeek 1990 (Image Alexander Medvedev)
Conus stramineus
Lamarck 1810 - Misus Cone (Image
Paul Kersten)
- Last whorl ventricosely conical; low spire; body whorl with radial streaks and
blotches; aperture light to dark or brownish violet
Distribution: Indo-Pacific: Indonesia, Philippines,
New Guinea, Solomon Is.
Maximum size: 60 mm
Conus stramineus Lamarck 1810 a specimen from Indonesia (Image Paul Kersten)
? Conus stramineus
mulderi Fulton 1936 (Image Paul Kersten)
- Regarded by most as a subspecies; Last whorl conoid-cylindrical; moderately high
spire; body whorl with reddish to dark brown radial streaks and blotches; aperture light to dark or brownish violet with an orange-brown collabral
band;
Distribution: Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomons
Maximum size: 52 mm
Conus stramineus mulderi
Fulton 1936...38 mm...Philippines
(Image Schooner)
Conus stramineus mulderi
Fulton 1936...32 - 35 mm...Philippines
(Image Schooner)
Conus stramineus mulderi Fulton 1936 (Image
from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus striatellus Link 1807- Striatellus Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
(Conus lictor Boivin 1864) - a synonym
Distribution: Indo-Pacific: Natal to Red Sea to
Japan and Fiji
Maximum size: 70.5 mm
Conus striatellus
Link 1807 Form called lictor (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus striatellus
Link 1807....70 mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus striatellus Link
1807...58 mm...Philippines
Conus
striatellus Link 1807 (Image from Gene Mallory's
Site)
Conus striatus Linnaeus
1758 - Striate Cone (Image
Paul Kersten)
- Last whorl narrowly conoid-cylindrical to conoid-cylindrical, narrowly cylindrical
to cylindrical, or ventricosely conical to ovate.
Distribution: S. Africa to Red Sea Hawaii and
French Polynesia
Maximum size: 129.3 mm
Conus striatus Linnaeus 1758...118.5 mm...Philippines (Image
Schooner)
Conus striatus Linnaeus
1758...102mm....Indonesia (Image
Schooner)
Conus striatus Linnaeus
1758...96 & 100 mm...Indonesia (Image Schooner)
Conus striatus Linnaeus
1758....80 mm...Philippines. (Image Schooner)
Conus striatus Linnaeus
1758...69 78 85 & 97 mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus striatus Linnaeus
1758...65 mm...Zanzibar (Image Schooner)
Conus striatus Linnaeus
1758....61 to 67 mm...Tanzania (Image
Schooner)
Conus striatus f. chusaki Da Motta 1978
- A form or synonym (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus striatus f. floridus Sowerby II 1858
- Floridus Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
- A form with a white ground colour, last whorl clouded or spirally banded with shades
of pink, brown or violet; last whorl usually ovate.
(Conus chusaki da Motta 1978) - A synonym of striatus f. floridus Sowerby II 1858, as recognised by Da Motta in 1995.
Distribution: W. Thailand
Maximum size: 105 mm
Conus striatus f. floridus Sowerby II 1857...66.5mm...India (Image Schooner)
Conus striatus f. floridus Sowerby II 1857
...70.4 mm...India (Image
Schooner)
Conus striatus f. floridus Sowerby II 1857
...68.5 mm...India (Image
Schooner)
Conus striatus f. floridus Sowerby II 1857 (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus striatus f. subfloridus da Motta 1985...70 mm...India (Image Schooner)
- A form with a white ground colour, variably suffused with pale purple to to bluish
violet; pattern usually sparse, ocassionally absent; shape is nominate.
Distribution: India, Thailand, Sri Lanka
Maximum size: 76,5 mm
Conus striatus f. subfloridus da Motta 1985...58 mm...India (Image Schooner)
Conus striolatus
Kiener 1845
(Image Paul Kersten) Distribution: W. Thailand to Micronesia, Taiwan
to Queensland
The nominate form is a shell like the left one on the picture: whitish and lacking the olive clouds
on the last whorl
Maximum size: 76 mm
?? Conus striolatus f. decurtata Dautzenberg 1910 (Image Paul Kersten)
- Status of this form is very unsure.
Distribution: W. Thailand - Micronesia, Taiwan
- Queensland
Maximum size: 46 mm
Conus striolatus f. decurtata Dautzenberg 1910...31.5-34 mm...Solomon
Islands (Image Schooner)
Conus
striolatus f. decurtata
Dautzenberg 1910 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus (Embrikena) stupa (Kuroda 1956) (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Philippines, Japan, Solomons, Loyalty
Islands
Maximum size: 100 mm
Conus (Embrikena) stupa (Kuroda 1956) (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
? Conus (Embrikena) stupella
(Kuroda 1956) - Stupella Cone (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A valid species or possibly a form of Conus stupa Kuroda 1956 -
Distribution: Japan to Taiwan Philippines
Maximum size: 97.8 mm
(Conus subaequalis Sowerby III 1870) - synonym of Conus praecellens Adams 1854; See there.
Conus subulatus Kiener 1845 - Subulate Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Philippines, Solomon Is., W. Thailand
Maximum size: 46 mm
Conus suduirauti
G. Raybaudi 2004 - Suduiraut's Cone (Image
Paul Kersten)
- Last whorl conical to broadly conical; outline straight to slightly convex; spire
high, stepped; larval shell smooth; last whorl with strongly beaded spiral ribs;
colour of the last whorl white to pink-white with scattered reedish-brown spots;
early teleoconch whorls white; sutural ramps with sparse radial streaks, later spire
with reddish-brown spots; larval whorls pure white; aperture light yellow.
Distribution: Philippines and New Guinea
Maximum size: 20 mm
Conus
suduirauti Raybaudi 2004 (Image from Gene Mallory's
Site)
Conus
suduirauti Raybaudi 2004 (Image Michel Jolivet)
Conus sugimotonis Kuroda 1928 (Image Paul Kersten)
(Conus (Rhizoconus) vicdani (Lan T.C. 1978) (Image (for informational purposes only) Paul Kersten) - A synonym.
(Conus sugimotonis whiteheadae da Motta 1985) - A synonym.
Distribution: Philippines, Queensland Australia,
Coral Sea
Maximum size: 110 mm
Conus sugimotonis Kuroda
1928...71 mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus sugimotonis
Kuroda 1928...70 mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus sugimotonis
Kuroda 1928...85 mm...Australia
(Image Schooner)
Conus sukhadwalai Röckel & da Motta 1983 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: South India
Maximum size : 50 mm
Conus
sukhadwalai Röckel & da Motta 1983 (Image
Giancarlo Paganelli)
Conus
sukhadwalai Röckel & da Motta 1983 (Image
Michel Jolivet)
Conus sulcatus Hwass 1792 - Sulcate Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Japan, Taiwan & Philippines,
Bay of Bengal, Indonesia, Melanesia to Fiji
Maximum size: 90 mm
Conus sulcatus
Hwass 1792 Brown form (Image Paul
Kersten)
Conus sulcatus Hwass
1792...60 mm...Philippines.
(Image Schooner)
Conus sulcatus f. bocki Sowerby III 1881 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A nearly smooth and weakly sculptured form with a broad last whorl, strongly tuberculate
shoulder, variable in body sculpture; brown coloured.
Distribution:W. Thailand, Philippines to Melanesia
Maximum size: 90 mm
Conus
sulcatus f. bocki
Sowerby III 1881 (Image from Gene Mallory's
Site)
Conus sulcatus f. bocki Sowerby III 1881...48mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus sulcatus f. bocki Sowerby III 1881...61.5 mm...Philippines (Image
Schooner)
Conus sulcatus f. bocki Sowerby III 1881...59mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus sulcatus f. bocki Sowerby III 1881...58mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus sulcatus f. brettinghami Coomans Moolenbeek & E.Wils
1982 (Image Paul Kersten)
- A light, smooth and weakly sculptured form with a narrower last whorl the upper
half smooth, almost solid (light) brown and an undulate to weakly tuberculate shoulder
-
Distribution: India, W. Thailand, Philippines
Maximum size: 71 mm
Conus sulcatus f. samiae da Motta 1982 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A very broad form; last whorl sculptured with broad, often pustulose spiral ribs
or ribbons, grooves between axially striate and often containing 1-3 spiral threads;
-
Distribution: Philippines and Solomon Islands
Maximum size: 65 mm
Conus sulcatus f. samiae da Motta 1982
Albino (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus sulcatus f. samiae da Motta 1982...53
to 55 mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus sulcatus f. samiae da Motta 1982....36 mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus sulcatus f. samiae da Motta 1982 (Image
from Eddie Hardy's Site)
Conus sulcocastaneus Kosuge 1981 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Philippines, Marshall Islands
Maximum size: 50 mm
Conus sulcocastaneus.Kosuge
1981...58.5 mm...Philippines. (Image
Schooner)
Conus sulcocastaneus
Kosuge 1981...50-53 mm...Philippines
(Image Schooner)
Conus sulcocastaneus
Kosuge 1981...49 51 mm...Philippines. (Image Schooner)
Conus sulcocastaneus
Kosuge 1981...44 mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus sunderlandi
Petuch 1987 (Image Paul Kersten)
- According to Filmer valid
- According to Tucker a synonym of Conus philippii garciai Da Motta 1982
- Shoulder sharp angled; body whorl smooth and shiny, anterior tip with several strong
spiral cords, shell colour white, overlaid with numerous closely packed rows of tiny,
bright orange, vertical flammules, mid-body with a white band; anterior tip white,
with few scattered orange flammules; spire whorls white with bright orange flammules;
aperture white; Conus garciai and Conus sunderlandi were found together
on different bottoms in Honduras, the first on muddy sand, the latter on coralline
bottoms (Pers. Comm. Bruno Besse, PK).
Distribution: Caribbean Honduras
Maximum size: 33 mm
Conus suratensis Hwass 1792 - Suratan Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Indo-Pacific: India to Queensland
Australia
Conus sutanorcum
Moolenbeek, Röckel & Bouchet 2008 HOLOTYPE
Maximum size: 150 mm
Conus
suratensis Hwass 1792 Form with almost no pattern
(Image Paul Kersten)
Conus suratensis
Hwass 1792 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus suratensis Hwass
1792...113 mm...Phipippines (Image
Schooner)
Conus suratensis
Hwass 1792...103 mms...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus suratensis Hwass
1792...97 & 94 mm...Philippines
(Image Schooner)
- Filmer: a valid species or a synonym (form) of Conus segondensis Fenzan, 2008
- Shape conical to broadly ovate; protoconch glossy white, two nearly smooth tapering
whorls; suture rather deep; colour white with irregular axial brown markings;
last whorl with about 35 spiral cords which are narrower than the axially striated
interspaces; on the basal part of the whorl the interspaces are about 5 times as broad as
the cords; upper cords brown with now and then a white area in between, on lower
cords the brown and white portions are nearly equal; base white; aperture rather
slender, white with brown lines shining through the edge
Distribution: Fiji and probably Vanuatu
Maximum size: 29,7 mm
Conus sutanorcum Moolenbeek, Röckel & Bouchet 2008 Paratypes
Conus suturatus Reeve 1844 - Violet Base Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: New Guinea, Australia
Maximum size: 46 mm
Conus suturatus
Reeve 1844 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus suturatus
Reeve 1844 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus
suturatus sandwichensis Walls 1978 - Hawaiian Cone (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A subspecies, but could be a valid species; similar pattern, except for mostly
darker spiral bands on the last whorl, a pale orange-brown base and a usually maculated
spire.
Distribution: Hawaiian Is.
Maximum size: 20 mm
Conus suturatus sandwichensis Walls 1978 - Hawaiian Cone (Image Paul Kersten
Conus swainsoni Estival & Von Cosel 1986 - Swainson's Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: New Caledonia
Maximum size: 78 mm
Conus swainsoni
Estival & Von Cosel 1986 - Swainson's Cone Juvenile (Image Michel Jolivet)<
This juvenlle shows that C. swainsoni differs from C. circumactus
Conus sydneyensis Sowerby 1887 (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
(Conus (Leptoconus) sydneyensis illawarra (Garrard 1961)) - A synonym.
Distribution: New South Wales Australia
Maximum size: 50 mm
See also: www.seashellsofnsw.org.au/Conidae/Images/2500-1.jpg. from the Seashell Club of Sydney website.
Conus sydneyensis Sowerby 1887 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus tabidus Reeve 1844 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: W. Africa including Cape Verde Islands
Normal size: 40 mm
Conus tabidus Reeve
1844 Senegal (Image Schooner)
Conus
tabidus Reeve 1844 (Image from Gene
Mallory's Site)
Conus tacomae Boyer & Pelorce 2009 Paratype (Image Jacques Pelorce)
Distribution: Senegal
Normal size: about 30 mm
Conus taeniatus Hwass 1792 - Ringed Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Red Sea to Oman
Maximum size: 43 mm
Conus taeniatus Hwass 1792 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus tamikoae Shikama 1973 - A colour form of Conus kinoshitai Kuroda 1956; See there.
Conus taslei Kiener 1845 - Tasle's Cone (Image Manuel Tenorio)
Distribution: South West Africa: Guineas and southern
Senegal
Maximum size: 40 mm
Conus
taslei Kiener 1845 (Image from Specimenshells.net
site)
Conus taslei Kiener
1845 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus cf taslei
Kiener 1845 (Image Paul Kersten)
- Very much similar to Conus taslei although locality (a bit) outside known range;
who can help?
Conus taslei Kiener
1845< (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus telatus Reeve 1848 - Philippine Cone (Image Paul Kersten)/FONT>
Distribution: Southern Philippines
Maximum size: 85 mm
Conus telatus Reeve
1848...76 mm......Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus telatus Reeve
1848...61 mm...Philippines
(Image Schooner)
Conus telatus Reeve
1848...55-6 0mm...Philippines (Image
Schooner)
Conus telatus Reeve
1848...40 mm...Philippines
(Image Schooner)
Conus telatus f. rugosus Lauer 1988 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- The pustulated form. Sympatric.
Distribution: Philippines
Maximum size: 66.9 mm
Conus telatus f. rugosus Lauer 1988...49 mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus
telatus f.
rugosus Lauer 1988 (Image
from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus tenuilineatus Rolán & D. Röckel 2001 - holotype - (Image Manuel Tenorio)
Distribution: Angola
Maximum size: 35 mm
Conus tenuilineatus
Rolán & D. Röckel 2001 (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus tenuilineatus
Rolán & D. Röckel 2001 (Image Carlos Afonso)
Conus
tenuilineatus Rolán & D. Röckel 2001
(Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus tenuistriatus Sowerby 1858 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Indian Ocean, Philippines to New
Guinea, French Polynesia and Marshall Is.
Maximum size: 35 mm
Conus tenuistriatus
Sowerby 1858...45 mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus tenuistriatus
Sowerby 1858...35 mm...Zanzibar (Image Schooner)
Conus teodorae Rolán & Fernandes 1990 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Boavista Island, Cape Verde
Maximum size: 25 mm
Conus teodorae Rolán
& Fernandes 1990 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus
teodorae Rolán & Fernandes 1990 (Image
from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus (Endemoconus) teramachii (Kuroda 1956) - Teramachi's Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: East Africa to Japan, Taiwan, Islands
north of New Zealand, Queensland and W. Australia
Maximum size: 110 mm
Conus teramachii (Kuroda 1956)...84.5 mm...Mozambique (Image Schooner)
Conus teramachii f. neotorquatus da Motta 1985 (Image Paul Kersten)
- A regional form
Distribution: Madagascar to Somalia
Maximum size: 111 mm
Conus teramachii f. neotorquatus da Motta 1985 (Image from Eddie Hardy's site)
See also: http://www.bigai.ne.jp/pic_book/data28/r002764.html
Conus terebra Born 1778 - Terebra Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: E. Africa to Marquesas and Australia
Maximum size: 98 mm
Conus terebra
Born 1778 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus terebra Born
1778...74 mm...Zanzibar (Image Schooner)
Conus terebra f. thomasi Sowerby III 1883 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A form from the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden; more smooth with weaker spiral ribs than
the nominate.
Distribution : Red Sea to India
Conus terminus Lamarck 1810 - A pattern-form of Conus gubernator Lamarck 1810; See there.
Conus terryni Tenorio
& Poppe 2004 - Terryn's Cone (Image
Paul Kersten)
- This is the same species as sagarinoi Fenzan 2004
which description was published a little bit later; last whorl conoid-cylindrical;
aperture wider at base than near shoulder; anterior tip is blunt and rounded colour
of the body whorl is uniform straw-yellow/ ivory; body whorl covered with ribbons
of pale brown spots; aperture white.
Distribution : Aliguay Island, Philippines
Maximum size : 31,5 mm
Conus terryni Tenorio & Poppe 2004 - Live taken specimen (Image C & S Shell Cabinet)
Conus tessulatus Born 1778 - Tesselate Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Indo-Pacific and E. Pacific region
Maximum size: 82.8 mm
Conus tessulatus
Born 1778 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus tessulatus
Born 1778 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus tessulatus
Born 1778 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus tessulatus
Born 1778 A specimen from the Sea of Cortez, Panama
(Image Paul Kersten)
Conus tessulatus Born
1778 (Image
Michel Jolivet)
Conus testudinarius Hwass 1792 - form of Conus ermineus Born 1778; See there.
(Conus tevesi Trovão 1978) - synonym of Conus musivus Kiener 1845; See there.
Conus textile Linnaeus
1758 - Cloth of Gold Cone
(Image Paul Kersten)
- Undoubtedly the world's most common cone, spanning the entire Indo-Pacific, except
for the coast of the Americas. Fantastically variable, with many local and regional
forms.
NOTE: For a wonderful gallery of forms and variants, see Andre Fontaine's intreaguing site: http://andrefontaine83.free.fr/Textile.htm - I can't say I agree with his designations 100% (Mayhew), but with a species this variable, this is not unexpected!!
(Conus textile tigrinus Sowerby 1857) - A synonym. (many other synonyms of course exist....)
Distribution: Indo-Pacific
Maximum size: 129.3 mm
Conus textile Linnaeus
1758 A minimal patterned form from Madagascar (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus textile Linnaeus
1758 (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus textile f. archiepiscopus Hwass 1792 (Image Paul Kersten)
- Form with a fine reticulated pattern; ground colour white or blueish; last whorl
ventricosely conical to ovate.
Distribution: - E. Africa similar patterned shells in Melanesia
Maximum size: 67 mm
Conus textile f. archiepiscopus Hwass 1792 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus
textile f.
auriger Röding P.1798 (Image from Gene Mallory's
Site)
- A weak form with a widely meshed pattern and a few yellowish brown blotches; last
whorl ovate: looks much alike form verriculum.
Distribution: Indian Ocean
Maximum size: 88 mm
Conus textile f. cholmondeleyi Melvill 1900 (Image Paul Kersten)
- Form with variably dark brown axial lines; last whorl conoid-cylindrical to ovate.
Distribution: Zanzibar, Mozambique, Natal, Madagascar Kenya
Maximum size: 80 mm
Conus textile f. cholmondeleyi Melvill 1900...69 mm...Zanzibar (Image Schooner)
Conus textile f. cholmondeleyi Melvill 1900...63 mm...Zanzibar (Image Schooner)
Conus textile f. cholmondeleyi Melvill 1900...57 mm....Zanzibar (Image Schooner)
Conus
textile f.
cholmondeleyi f.
eumitus Tomlin 1926 (Image from Eddie Hardy's
Site)
- A "sub-form" (a more solid and broader sympatric variant with 3 spiral
colour bands) of cholmondeleyi Melvill. Linnaeus, who invented the binomial
system to simplify things, would NOT approve - yet in this case it would appear to
be a perfectly legitimate quatranomial, since the variant in question is easily and
consistantly differentiated from its "parent form", although admittedly,
intergrades do occur!! (Mayhew)
Distribution: South Africa to Mozambique
Maximum size: 80 mm
Conus
textile f.
concatenatus Kiener 1845 (Image Paul Kersten)
- Form with a very reduced reticulated pattern. Often called f. scriptus Sowerby III, 1858
Distribution: Madagascar; Indo-Pacific
Maximum size: 60 mm
Conus textile f. concatenatus Kiener 1845...66.5mm
...Madagascar (Image Schooner)
Conus
textile f.
concatenatus Kiener 1845 A specimen with an almost invisible golden pattern (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus
textile f. corbula
Sowerby 1858 - Holotype. (Image courtesy of Alan Kohn)
- A form similar to archiepiscopus Hwass
Distribution: E. Africa
Maximum size: 70 mm
Conus
textile f.
dahlakensis da Motta 1982 (Image from Gene
Mallory's Site)
- A form intergrading between textile and neovicarius.
Distribution: Red Sea; Gulf of Aqaba
Maximum size: 87 mm
Conus textile f. eumitus Tomlin (Image
Korinna Sangiouloglou)
- A "sub-form" of cholmondeleyi (see there).
Conus textile f. euetrios Sowerby III 1882 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A form with broad shell and a pattern close to that of form archiepiscopus; last
whorl ventricosely conical to ovate.
Distribution: E. & S.E. Africa
Maximum size: 90 mm
Conus textile f. euetrios Sowerby III 1882...33.5
- 37mm...Small bluish clouded and "textile" banded...Réunion (Image
Schooner)
Conus
textile f.
euetrios Sowerby III 1882 (Image from Gene Mallory's
Site)
Conus textile f. neovicarius da Motta 1982 (Image Paul Kersten)
- A solid form from the Red Sea last whorl ventricosely conical; typical textile
pattern.
Distribution: Red Sea Gulf of Aden
Maximum size: 100 mm
Conus textile f. neovicarius da Motta 1982...50mm... (Image Schooner)
Conus textile f. neovicarius da Motta 1982...44mm... (Image
Schooner)
Conus textile f. panniculus Lamarck 1810 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A form.
Distribution: E. Indies - Tahiti
Maximum size: 60 mm
Conus textile f. panniculus Lamarck 1810...37.5 mm...Marquesas (Image Schooner)
Conus textile f. pyramidalis Lamarck 1810 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A form from Kenya and Madagascar; last whorl narrow and conoid-cylindrical to ventricosal
conical spire relatively high.
Distribution: Tanzania, Zanzibar, Madagascar
Conus textile f. pyramidalis Lamarck 1810...81 mm...Zanzibar (Image Schooner)
Conus textile f. pyramidalis Lamarck 1810
(Image from Eddie Hardy's site)
Conus textile f. scriptus Sowerby II 1858
- A light local form with spiral colour bands reduced to rows of spots and flecks; rather
whitish; last whorl ventricosely conical to conoid-cylindrical.
Distribution: St. Brandon
Maximum size: 61 mm
Conus textile f. sirventi Fenaux 1943 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A form with a reduced orange pattern; last whorl ventricosal conical.
Distribution: Madagascar
Conus textile f. sirventi Fenaux 1943 (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus textile f. suzannae Van Rossum 1990 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A small colour form with reddisch brown reticulated rows on a yellowish orange
ground colour; last whorl narrow, conoical-cylindrical to ventricosely conical; spire
rather high.
Distribution: Kenya - Zanzibar
Maximum size: 60mm
Conus textile f. suzannae Van Rossum 1990...35
& 38mmr...Zanzibar (Image
Schooner)
Conus textile f. suzannae Van Rossum 1990 (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus textile f. suzannae Van Rossum 1990...33 mm...Zanzibar (Image Schooner)
Conus textile f. suzannae Van Rossum 1990
(Image from Eddie Hardy's Site)
Conus textile f. suzannae Van Rossum 1990...31
34 mm...Kenya (Image
Schooner)
Conus textile f. textilinus Kiener 1845 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- Filmer: a local form of the Marquesas or possibly a valid species
Distribution: Marquesas
Maximum size: 51 mm
Conus
textile f.
textilinus Kiener 1845 (Image from Gene
Mallory's Site)
Conus textile f. textilinus Kiener 1845...50mm... (Image Schooner)
Conus textile f. verriculum Reeve 1843 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A rather solid form with a ventricosely conicalor ovate last whorl.
Distribution: Mauritius, Mozambique, Madagascar,
Sri Lanka
Maximum size: 68 mm
Conus textile f. verriculum Reeve 1843...78mm...Zanzibar (Image Schooner)
- Conus thailandis da Motta 1978 is a subspecies of Conus crocatus Lamarck 1810; See there.
Conus thalassiarchus
Sowerby I 1833 - Rough Cone (Image
Paul Kersten) Distribution: East Indian Ocean: Phlippines
- An amazingly variable species.
Maximum size: 111 mm
Conus
thalassiarchus Sowerby 1833 (Paul Kersten)
Conus thalassiarchus
Sowerby 1833 (Paul Kersten)
Conus thalassiarchus
Sowerby 1833 The "azona form"
(Image Paul Kersten)
Conus thalassiarchus
Sowerby 1833...79 mm...Philippines
(Image Schooner)
Conus thalassiarchus
Sowerby 1833 - A very dark, almost blackish specimen (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus thalassiarchus
Sowerby 1833 - A dark specimen (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus thalassiarchus
Sowerby 1833 Extreme patterns (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus
theodorei Petuch 2000 (Image Paul Kersten)
- According to Tucker and Filmer a synonym of Conus cardinalis Hwass 1792;
- A shell with straight sides and sharply-angled shoulder; shoulder ornamented with
large rounded knobs projecting outwards from shoulder; spire low and flattened; projecting
only on earliest whorls; body whorl coloured bright pink, overlaid with 2 wide, broken
bands of deep orange-red, which in turn, are overlaid with scattered dark brown flammules
and hairlines; pustulated spiral cords with small dots; spire whorls pink with small
orange-brown flammules; protoconch dark pink.
Distribution: Bahamas
Maximum size: 43 mm
Conus
theodorei Petuch 2000 (Image from Gene Mallory's
Site)
? Conus thevenardensis da Motta 1987
(Image Paul Kersten) Distribution: W. Australia: Thevenard Island Conus nielsenae reductaspiralis
thevenardensis da Motta 1987...37-39mm...Australia
(Image Schooner)
Conus thomae Gmelin
1791 - St. Thomas Cone (Image
Paul Kersten) Distribution: Moluccas Indonesia and S. Philippines
- According to Filmer a valid species; regarded by others as a subspecies of Conus reductaspiralis Walls with a
pure white shell -
Maximum size: 48 mm
Maximum size: 92 mm
Conus thomae
Gmelin 1791
(Image Paul Kersten)
Conus thomae Gmelin
1791...69 mm...Philippines (Image
Schooner)
Conus
thomae Gmelin 1791 (Image from Gene Mallory's
Site)
Conus tiaratus Sowerby 1833 - Tiara Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: West Mexico to Equador
Maximum size: 49.2 mm
Conus tiaratus Sowerby 1833...36mm...Galapagos (Image Schooner)
Conus
tiaratus Sowerby 1833 (Image
from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus tiaratus f. roosevelti Bartsch & Rehder 1939 (Image Paul Kersten)
- A form.
Distribution : Clipperton Island
Conus tiki
Moolenbeek, Zandbergen & Bouchet 2008 HOLOTYPE
-Spire of moderate height, slighly concave, stepped; nodulation on first post nuclear whorls
gradually developes but remains small until the last one on the body whorl; just below the sutures on spire
one or two spiral grooves; shoulder carinate; outline body whorl sigmoid, with about 12-13
spiral grooves; protoconch vitreous white; teleoconch white, on spire irregular brown spots, on
body whorl about 12-13 rows of brown spots towards the anterior part less numerous
Distribution: Marquesas Archipelago
Maximum size: 28 mm
Conus tiki
Moolenbeek, Zandbergen & Bouchet 2008 Paratype
Conus tiki
Moolenbeek, Zandbergen & Bouchet 2008 (Image Philippe Quiquandon)
Conus timorensis Hwass 1792 - Timor Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Mauritius to New Guinea
Maximum size: 45 mm
Conus timorensis
Hwass 1792 (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus tinianus Hwass 1792 - Ruddy Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: South Africa
Maximum size: 50 mm
Conus tinianus Hwass
1792 (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus tinianus
Hwass 1792 (Image Alexander Medvedev)
Conus tinianus Hwass
1792...50 mm...South Africa (Image
Schooner)
Conus tinianus Hwass
1792...44.5 & 37 mm...South Africa (Image Schooner)
Conus tinianus Hwass
1792 (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus
tinianus f.
aurora Lamarck 1810
- (lectotype image, from the Conus biodiversity website) - A sympatric colour
form.
Conus tinianus f. lavendulus Bartsch, P., 1915 - Image needed!
- A sympatric colour form, presumably lavender.
Conus tinianus f. rosaceus Dillwyn 1817...38 mm...South Africa (Image Schooner)
- A sympatric colour form.
Conus
tirardi Röckel & Moolenbeek 1996 PARATYPE (Image
Bill Fenzan)
- Light shell with a multispiral protoconch; outline with a slightly convex apex
and almost straight below; colour beige, with 3 spiral bands on the last whorl; base
purple with spiral cords and irregular fine brown spots.
Distribution: New Caledonia, Pitcairn Is.
Maximum size: 31 mm
Conus
tirardi Röckel & Moolenbeek 1996 (Image
from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus (Rhizoconus) tisii (Lan 1978) (Image from Shell Passion, Philippe Quiquandon)
Distribution: Philippines, Taiwan
Maximum size: 154 mm
Conus
(Rhizoconus) tisii (Lan 1978) (Image from
Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus
(Rhizoconus) tisii (Lan 1978) (Image Michel Jolivet)
- Conus tmetus Tomlin 1937 is a subspecies of Conus ochroleucus Gmelin 1791; See there.
Conus tornatus Sowerby 1833 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: East Pacific
Maximum size: 45 mm
Conus tornatus Sowerby 1833 (Image Paul Kersten)
? Conus tostesi Petuch
1986 (Image Paul Kersten)
- Shell elongate, thin fragile; spire protracted; body whorl shiny with anterior
one-third covered with numerous fine spiral threads; shoulder produced but slightly
rounded; colour pale violet to darker violet with three wide bands of reddish-brown,
overlaid by 10-14 rows of brown dots; spire with numerous flammules; Possibly a form
of Conus clerii Reeve 1844 or Conus lemniscatus Reeve 1849 (acc. to
Tucker); Renata Gomes concluded (2004)it to be a synonym of Conus clerii Reeve
1844
Distribution: Brazil
Maximum size: 34 mm
Conus tostesi Petuch 1986...21mm...Brazil (Image Schooner)
Conus traillii
Adams 1855 (Image Paul Kersten)
- A rather flat teleoconch which shows a distinct furrow; suture shallow; distinct
transverse striae and ridges on entire body whorl; ground colour is brownish yellow,
an inerrupted band of brown stripes seperates the whitish colour of the spire from
the brownish body whorl-
Distribution : South China Sea, Indonesia, Philippines
Maximium size : 7 mm
Conus traillii Adams 1855 (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus transkeiensis Korn 1998 is a subspecies of Conus pictus Reeve 1843; See there.
Conus tranthami Petuch 1995 - form of Conus anabathrum Crosse 1865; See there.
Conus
traversianus E. A. Smith 1875 (Image from
A. Kohn)
Picture of the holotype
Distribution : Gulf of Aden, Red Sea, Somalia
Maximium size : 43 mm
Conus traversianus E. A. Smith 1875 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus trencarti Nolf & Verstraeten
2008 - Trencart's Cone (Image
Frank Nolf & Johan Verstraeten)
Last whorl is ventricosely conical to ovate; shoulder rounded; outline convex at adapical half, straight or slightly concave below; spire
moderately high, slightly sigmoid; sutural ramps convex with faint spiral ribs; last whorl rather smooth
but marked with about ten ribs at the base; ground colour white with a pattern of light olive-brown markings
forming irregular white flecks and triangulate spots throughout, mainly organised as three reticulated bands on the last whorl, one at the shoulder,
a second on the higher part and a third one at about mid body; lighter zones are clearly visible in the brown to bluish aperture.
Distribution: Dakar area, Senegal
Maximum size: 27mm
Conus trencarti Nolf & Verstraeten
2008 - Trencart's Cone (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus trencarti Nolf & Verstraeten
2008 - Trencart's Cone (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus tribblei Walls 1977 - Tribble's Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Taiwan to Phillipines, N.W. Australia,
Solomons
Maximum size: 120 mm
Conus tribblei
Walls 1977...72 mm... (Image
Schooner)
Conus tribblei Walls
1977...67 mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus tribblei Walls
1977...67 mm..India (Image
Schooner)
Conus tribblei Walls
1977...65 mm...Philippines (Image
Schooner)
Conus
tribblei Walls 1977...Granulated form (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus
tribblei queenslandis da Motta 1984 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A subspecies; very big; ground colour white often suffused with cream; cream to
orangish brown colour bands.
Distribution: Queensland Australia, New Caledonia
Maximum size: 138 mm
Conus tribblei
queenslandis da Motta 1984 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus tribblei queenslandis
da Motta 1984...92 mm......Australia
(Image Schooner)
Conus tribblei queenslandis
da Motta 1984....89 mm...Australia
(Image Schooner)
Conus tribblei queenslandis
da Motta 1984 ...88 mm..Australia
(Image Schooner)
Conus trigonus Reeve 1848 - Trigonal Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Australia
Maximum size: 92 mm
Conus trigonus f. adami Wils 1988 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A form; lighter than typical form; shoulder carinate and outwardly curved; spire
very low; dark areas variably reduced central ground-colour band often edged with
brown flecks.
Distribution: Arafura Sea; Gulf of Carpentaria (Australia)
Maximum size: 80 mm
Conus trigonus f. adami Wils 1988 (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus tristensis Petuch 1987
A synonym of Conus armiger Crosse 1858 or of Conus cancellatus Hwass
1792 according to Filmer
Conus trochulus Reeve 1844 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Boavista Island, Cape Verde
Normal size: 35 mm
Conus
trochulus Reeve 1844 (Image from Gene Mallory's
Site)
Conus trochulus
Reeve 1844...39 mm...Cape
Verde (Image Schooner)
Conus trochulus
Reeve 1844...34 mm...Cape
Verde (Image Schooner)
Conus troendli
Moolenbeek, Zandbergen & Bouchet 2008 HOLOTYPE
- Last whorl ventricosely conical; shoulder carinate, spire low, straight, more concave to
the protoconch; colour protoconch white with irregular brown markings; some brown spots
continue just below the shoulder; body whorl yellow-brown with a band of light blotches
just below the middle
Distribution: Marqueasas Archipelago
Normal size: 19,5 mm
Conus troendli Moolenbeek, Zandbergen & Bouchet 2008
Conus tropicensis Coomans & Filmer 1985 - form of Conus lischkeanus Weinkauff 1875; See there.
Conus trovaoi Rolán & Röckel 2000 - Trovao's Cone - Holotype- (Image Manuel Tenorio)
Distribution: Angola
Normal size : 43,10 mm
Conus trovaoi Rolán
& Röckel 2000 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus trovaoi
Rolán & Röckel 2000 (Image Paul
Kersten)
Conus trovaoi
Rolán & Röckel 2000 (Image Paul
Kersten)
Conus trovaoi
Rolán & Röckel 2000 A specimen with
an aberrant pattern (Image Paul
Kersten)
Conus
trovaoi Rolán & Röckel 2000 (Image
from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus tuberculosus Tomlin 1937 (Image Bill Fenzan)
Distribution: Sagami Bay, Japan
Maximum size: 30 mm
Conus
tuberculosus Tomlin 1937 (Image from Gene
Mallory's Site)
Conus
tuberculosus Tomlin 1937 (Image C & S Shell Cabinet)
Conus tulipa Linnaeus 1758 - Tulip Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Mozambique to Somalia to Marshall
Is. and French Polynesia
Maximum size: 95.1 mm
Conus tulipa Linnaeus
1758 (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus tulipa Linnaeus
1758...69 mm...Philippines (Image
Schooner)
Conus tulipa Linnaeus
1758...51 & 53 mm...Philippines (Image
Schooner)
Conus
tulipa Linnaeus 1758 (Image from Gene Mallory's
Site)
Conus turschi da Motta 1985 - A form of Conus consors Sowerby 1833; See there.
Conus tuticorinensis
Röckel & Korn 1990 (Image Paul Kersten)
- A valid species or possibly a subspecies of Conus melvilli Sowerby
1879; Filmer regards it as a valid species
Distribution: S.E. India
Maximum size: 30 mm
See also: http://www.gastropods.com/0/Shell_4960.html
Conus tuticorinensis
Röckel & Korn 1990 (Image Alexander Medvedev)
? Conus (Leptoconus) typhon
Kilburn 1975 - Typhon Cone (Image
Paul Kersten)
- Some authors consider it as a form of Conus nielsenae Marsh 1962;
Distribution: East Africa
Maximum size: 49 mm
Conus typhon Kilburn 1975 (Image Paul Kersten)
See also: http://pw1.netcom.com/~ejpower/sacone/conepgsa5.htm
(Conus undatus Kiener 1845) - synonym of Conus lorenzianus Dillwyn 1817 (a subspecies of Conus spurius Gmelin 1791; See there).
Conus unifasciatus Kiener 1845 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Senegal
Maximum size: 45mm
Conus unifasciatus Kiener
1845
(Image Paul Kersten)
Conus unifasciatus Kiener
1845...29 to 34mm...Senegal (Image Schooner)
Conus unifasciatus Kiener
1845...26 to 32mm...Senegal (Image
Schooner)
Conus unifasciatus
Kiener 1845...25.5 mm...Senegal
(Image Schooner)
Conus
unifasciatus Kiener 1845 (Image from Gene
Mallory's Site)
?? Conus urashimanus Kuroda & Ito 1961 - A form or subspecies of Conus recluzianus Bernardi 1853 or possibly a Japanese form of Conus gloriakiiensis Kuroda & Ito 1961 (a synonym of Conus roseorapum Raybaudi & da Motta 1990; See recluzianus Bernardi forms).
Conus ustickei Miller in Nowell-Usticke 1959 - relatively weak form of Conus attenuatus Reeve 1844; See there.
Conus variegatus Kiener 1845 - Variable Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Angola
Maximum size: 40 mm
Conus varius Linnaeus 1758 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: E. Africa to Philippines to Fiji
to Solomon Islands
Maximum size: 68,6 mm
Conus varius Linnaeus
1758 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus varius Linnaeus
1758....35 to 42mm...Solomon Islands (Image Schooner)
Conus varius Linnaeus
1758...30 to 33 mm...Zanzibar (Image Schooner)
Conus varius Linnaeus
1758...29mm....Philippines...
(Image Schooner)
Conus varius Linnaeus
1758 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus
vaubani Röckel & Moolenbeek 1995 (Image
from Gene Mallory's Site)
- Small, narrowly conical; spire moderate high; shoulder angulate; last whorl conical,
attenuated near base; fine axial ribs on the base, fine spirals striae up to shoulder;
ground colour white with light brown axial sreaks from base to the last spire whorl;
a few irregular brown spots on the spire.
Distribution: New Caledonia
Maximum size: 25.8 mm
Conus
vaubani Röckel & Moolenbeek 1995 (Image
Eric Monnier)
See also: http://www.gastropods.com/7/Shell_14657.html
Conus vautieri Kiener 1845 - subspecies of Conus pulicarius Hwass 1792; See there.
Conus vayssetianus Crosse 1872 - A rather weak form of Conus exiguus Lamarck 1810; See there.
??? Conus vayssierei Pallary 1906 (Image Paul Kersten) - Considered by many, to be a colour form of Conus ventricosus Gmelin 1791.
Distribution : Lampedusa Island, Italy
Normal size: About 30 mm
?Conus velaensis
Petuch 1992 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- Shell elongated; shoulder sharply angled; spire low; aperture narrow; body whorl
shiny. polished, ornamented with 8 very widely-spaced spiral cord; anterior tip encircled
by 12 spiral cords; shell colour bright orange overlaid with widely-spaced white
longitudinal flammules, often in a zigzag pattern; edge of the shoulder bordered
by a very thin white band; spire orange with numerous flammules; anterior tip white;
protoconch and early whorls pale orange-tan; aperture white.
Distribution: Caribbean: Colombia
Maximum size: 31 mm
Conus
venezuelanus Petuch 1987 (Image from Gene
Mallory's Site)
- According to Filmer a synonym a valid species or possibly a synonym of Conus cancellatus Hwass, 1792
- According to Tucker a synonym of Conus stimpsoni Dall 1902
- Elongated shell, tapered with sharp-angled shoulder; body whorl heavily sculptured
with numerous fine spiral threads; colour white to pale salmon-pink with 2 bands
of dark yellow maculations around mid-body; spire marked with scattered small brown
flammules; aperture white.
Distribution: Venezuela
Maximum size: 27 mm
Conus ventricosus
Gmelin 1791 - Mediterranean Cone (Image
Paul Kersten)
- EXTREMELY variable species, and the only cone in the Mediterranean Sea!! It has
accumulated hundreds of synonyms over the years, few of which are of any particular
interest.
(Conus mediterraneus Hwass, 1792) - A junior synonym of Conus ventricosus Gmelin 1791.
(Conus franciscanus Hwass 1792) - Most likely one of the zillions of synonyms of Conus ventricosus Gmelin 1791, from NW Africa... Sometimes considered a synonym or form of Conus guinaicus Hwass 1792.
Distribution: Mediterranean Sea and NW. Africa
Maximum size: 65 mm
Conus ventricosus
Gmelin 1791 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus ventricosus
Gmelin 1791 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus ventricosus
Gmelin 1791 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus
ventricosus Gmelin 1791 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus venulatus Hwass 1792 - Cape Verde Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Boavista Island and Maio Island,
Cape Verde Islands
Maximum size: 55 mm
Conus
venulatus Hwass 1792 Brown blotched (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus venulatus
Hwass 1792 Light coloured specimen (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus venulatus Hwass
1792 (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus venulatus
Hwass 1792...35 to 38 mm...Cape Verde (Image
Schooner)
Conus venulatus Hwass
1792...35 to 38 mm...Cape Verde (Image Schooner)
Conus venulatus
Hwass 1792...29 to 37mm...Cape Verde (Image Schooner)
Conus venulatus Hwass
1792...29 to 33 mm...Cape
Verde (Image Schooner)
Conus venulatus Hwass
1792...27 to 29 mm...Cape Verde (Image
Schooner).
(Conus venulatus f. nivifer "Broderip, W.J." Sowerby, G.B. I in G.B. II Sowerby, 1833) - renamed as a full species: Conus pseudonivifer Monteiro, Tenorio & Poppe 2004.
Conus verdensis Trovão 1979 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Santiago Island, Cape Verde
Maximum size: 22 mm
Conus verdensis Trovão 1979 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus verdensis
furnae Rolán 1990 Holotype
(Image Manuel Tenorio)
- Subspecies; with axial elongated white blotches and more frequent white blotches
on the spire whorls.
Distribution : Brava Island, Cape Verde
Normal size : About 20 mm
Conus verdensis furnae Rolán 1990 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus vexillum Gmelin 1791 - Flag Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Indo-Pacific: Natal to Hawaii and
French Polynesia, Japan to Australia
Maximum size: 163.5 mm
Conus vexillum
Gmelin 1791 Yellow specimen (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus vexillum Gmelin
1791...120 mm Philippines
(Image Schooner)
Conus vexillum Gmelin
1791...98 & 99mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus vexillum Gmelin
1791...90 mm....Zanzibar
(Image Schooner)
Conus vexillum Gmelin
1791...66 mm...Philippines
(Image Schooner)
Conus vexillum Gmelin
1791...56 mm...Zanzibar
(Image Schooner)
Conus vexillum Gmelin
1791 (Image
Michel Jolivet)
Conus vexillum f. sumatrensis Hwass 1792
(Image Paul Kersten)
- A colour form with a different range; last whorl with blackish brown axial streaks
and flames with less densely spaced axial lines, spiral colour zones lighter brown
than in the nominate; white bands always distinct; base white to tan, covered with
little brown dots.
Distribution: Red Sea; N.W. Indian Ocean
Maximum size: 115 mm
Conus
vexillum sumatrensis Hwass 1792 (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus
vexillum sumatrensis Hwass 1792 (Image
from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus victor Broderip 1842 - Form of Conus nobilis Hwass 1758; See there.
Conus victoriae Reeve 1843 - Queen Victoria Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Australia: Northern Territory to
N.W. Cape
Maximum size: 70 mm
Conus victoriae
Reeve 1843 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus victoriae
Reeve 1843 (Image Paul Kersten) Albino
Conus victoriae
Reeve 1843 (Image Paul Kersten) Black specimen
Conus victoriae
Reeve 1843...59mm...Australia (Image Schooner)
Conus victoriae Reeve
1843...52 mm...Australia
(Image Schooner)
Conus victoriae Reeve
1843...49 mm....W.Australia (Image
Schooner)
Conus victoriae Reeve
1843...41 to 50 mm...Australia (Image Schooner)
Conus
victoriae Reeve 1843 (Image from Gene Mallory's
Site)
Conus
victoriae f.
complanatus Sowerby 1866 (From Eddy Hardy's
Site)
- The first four images only. The fifth is the nominate form. A form with a
rather broad last whorl and a fine reticulate pattern; low spire.
Conus victoriae
nodulosus Sowerby II 1864 (Image Paul Kersten)
- Now considered a full species; See main entry.
Conus vicweei Old 1973 - Vic Wee's Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Andaman Sea from Burma to Strait
of Malacca
Maximum size: 81 mm
Conus
vicweei Old 1973 (Image from Gene Mallory's
Site)
Conus vicweei Old
1973
(Image Paul Kersten)
Conus vicweei Old
1973...70.5 mm...Thailand.
(Image Schooner)
Conus vidua Reeve 1843 - A form of Conus bandanus Hwass 1792; See there;
?
Conus vikingorum Petuch 1993 - Viking Cone (Image Dream Shells)
- A member of the "daucus Hwass 1792 complex". Similar to Conus
boui Da Motta 1988 but more slender more angled shoulder and less striking patterned;
less pyriform than Conus goajira Petuch 1992; generally smaller than Conus
riosi Petuch 1986, which is also usually found in Brazil. Admittedly, this closely-related
group of taxa are a nightmare!!
Distribution: Columbia
Maximum size: 47 mm
?
Conus vikingorum Petuch 1993 - Viking Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
?
Conus vikingorum Petuch 1993 - Viking Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus villepinii
Fischer & Bernardi 1857 - Villepin's Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
- Slender conewith a high concave spire, stepped; tapering to a narrow base; straight
sided to slightly convave; sculpture with spiral cords with about 10 grooved basal
spirals; colour ivory white, usually with 2 bands of irregular brown flammules on
the upper part of the shell
Distribution: Florida to Brazil
Maximum size: 74 mm
Conus villepinii
Fischer & Bernardi 1857...67 mm...Brazil (Image Schooner)
Conus villepinii
Fischer & Bernardi 1857...62 mm...Brazil (Image Schooner)
Conus villepinii
Fischer & Bernardi 1857...61 to 64 mm...Brazil (Image
Schooner)
Conus villepinii Fischer
& Bernardi 1857...56 to 57 mm...Brazil (Image Schooner)
?
Conus villepinii f.
fosteri Clench & Aguayo 1942 (Image
from Gene Mallory's Site)
- Perhaps a subspecies, but given its range, probably not..
Distribution: W. Florida USA - S. Brazil
Maximum size: 62 mm
Conus vimineus Reeve 1849 - Wickerwork Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: S. Red Sea Seychelles S. India Sri
Lanka W. Thailand and Philippines
Maximum size: 70 mm
Conus vimineus Reeve 1849 (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus viola Cernohorsky
1977 (Image Paul Kersten)
- Larval shell orangish to purple red.
Distribution: N. & N.W. Australia, Philippines
to New Guinea and Solomon Is., W. Thailand
Maximum size: 60 mm
Conus viola Cernohorsky
1977 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus
(leptoconus) viola f.
blatteus Shikama 1979 (Image from Eddie
Hardy' Site)
- A form; ground colour reddish purple; last whorl with 3 spiral rows of brown blotches;
dotted dashed brown spiral lines from base to shoulder, often reduced; larval shell
pale yellow to beige.
Distribution: Taiwan to Philippines
Maximum size: 48 mm
Conus violaceus Gmelin 1791 - Violet Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Indian Ocean: E. Africa Madagascar
Mascarenes and Seychelles
Maximum size: 80 mm
Conus
violaceus Gmelin 1791
(Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus violaceus Gmelin
1791...56 mm...Zanzibar (Image Schooner)
Conus violaceus
Gmelin 1791...56 mm...Zanzibar
(Image Schooner)
Conus violaceus
Gmelin 1791...51 mm...Zanzibar
(Image Schooner)
Conus violaceus Gmelin
1791...40 mm...Zanzibar
(Image Schooner)
Conus virgatus Reeve 1849 - Virgate Panama Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: East Pacific
Maximum size: 75 mm
Conus
virgatus Reeve 1849 (Image from Gene Mallory's
Site)
Conus virgatus Reeve
1849 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus virgatus Reeve
1849...60 mm...Bahamas (Image
Schooner)
Conus virgatus Reeve
1849...59 to 62 mm...Panama (Image Schooner)
Conus virgatus Reeve
1849...48 to 53 mm...Panama (Image
Schooner)
Conus virgo Linnaeus 1758 - Virgin Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Indo-Pacific
Maximum size: 151.6 mm
Conus
virgo Linnaeus 1758 (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus virgo Linnaeus
1758 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus virgo Linnaeus
1758...113 mm...Philippines (Image
Schooner)
Conus virgo Linnaeus
1758...90 mm...Philippines (Image
Schooner)
Conus virgo Linnaeus
1758...80 mm...Philippines (Image Schooner)
Conus visagenus Kilburn 1974 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution : South Africa
Maximum size : 32.2 mm
See also: http://pw1.netcom.com/~ejpower/sacone/conepgsa6.htm
Conus visseri Delsaerdt, 1990 (Image Alan Kohn)
- found in the Phuket area of W. Thailand, there is debate whether this is just a juvenile
form of Conus coffeae Gmelin 1791; according to Tucker a synonym of Conus
traillii A. Adams 1855
Conus vittatus Hwass 1792 - Ribboned Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: East Pacific
Maximum size: 45 mm
Conus vittatus Hwass
1792 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus vittatus Hwass
1792...41 mm...Panama (Image
Schooner)
Conus vittatus Hwass
1792...32 to 36 mm...Panama
(Image Schooner)
Conus vittatus Hwass
1792...32 mm...Panama (Image
Schooner)
Conus vittatus Hwass
1792...32 mm...Panama (Image
Schooner)
Conus vittatus Hwass
1792...27 mm...Panama .
(Image Schooner)
Conus
vittatus Hwass 1792 (Image
from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus vitulinus Hwass 1792 - A form of Conus planorbis Born 1778; See there.
Conus voluminalis Reeve 1843 (Image Paul Kersten)
(Conus filicinctus Schepman 1913) - A synonym: based on a worn juvenile specimen.
Distribution: Indo-Pacific: Maldives to W. Australia,
Ryukyus, Taiwan to Solomon Is., New Guinea
Maximum size: 80 mm
Conus
voluminalis Reeve 1843 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus voluminalis Reeve
1843 banded macarae form from the Philippines (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus voluminalis
Reeve 1843 macarae form from the Philippines. (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus voluminalis Reeve
1843 An almost patternless form from Australia (Image
Schooner)
? Conus voluminalis f. macarae Bernardi 1857 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A colour form unsure it is distinct: must be considered "weak".
Distribution: E. Indian Ocean W. Pacific
Maximum size: 80 mm
Conus voluminalis macarae Bernardi 1857 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus vulcanus
Tenorio & Afonso 2004 - holotype - (Image
Manuel Tenorio)
- Last whorl conical to ventricosely conical; with a low to moderate spire; shoulder
rounded; last whorl straight or most often convex; last whorl smooth with variably
spaced fine spiral ribs in the basal part; very dark brown colour, sometimes almost
black; very dark spiral lines are usually visible; white spiral band around the middle
covered by a dark brown reticulated pattern; between shoulder and midbody often a
fine reticulated pattern of white dots sometimes lackingon the shoulder often a fine
spiral band of a lighter brown colour; just above the shoulder irregular dark brown
blotches on white; aperture white.
Distribution : Boavista Island, Cape Verde Archipelago
Maximum size : 31 mm
Conus vulcanus Tenorio & Afonso 2004 (Image Paul Kersten) Conus vulcanus Tenorio & Afonso 2004 (Image Paul Kersten) Conus vulcanus Tenorio & Afonso 2004 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus (Conasprella) wakayamaensis (Kuroda 1956) (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, S. Africa
Maximum size: 32 mm
Conus wakayamaensis f. nereis Petuch 1979 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A colour form.
Distribution: Philippines
Maximum size: 27 mm
Conus wakayamaensis f. nereis Petuch 1979 A specimen with a different pattern (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus (Lilliconus) wallacei
(Lorenz & Morrison 2004) - Wallace's Cone
- Smooth teleoconch sutural ramps are convex and the suture is deep; blue coloured,
no band, numerous fine brown lines with white intermediate specks.
- According to Moolenbeek a synonym of Conus traillii A. Adams, 1855 (Vita Malacologica 6)
Distribution: South China Sea Indonesia
Maximum size: 11 mm
Conus wallangra Garrard 1961 - Wallangra Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: New South Wales to Queensland Australia
Maximum size: 40 mm
Conus wallangra (Garrard 1961) (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus wilsi Delsaerdt
1998 (Images from the original description)
- Last whorl smooth with straight sides; conical; spire almost flat; shoulder angulate;
colour of the last whorl (violet) white with a pattern of brown spots; central white
band edged a spiral row of brown spots or flammules.
Distribution: Red Sea
Maximum size: 30 mm
(Conus wistaria Shikama 1970) - synonym of Conus fulmen Reeve 1843; See there.
Conus wittigi Walls 1977 - Wittig's Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Sunda Isl. & Timor Flores Indonesia
Maximum size: 41 mm
Conus wittigi
Walls 1977 The kongaensis form from Konga Island (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus wittigi
Walls 1977...36 mm...Indonesia
(Image Schooner)
Conus wittigi Walls
1977...32-35 mm...Indonesia
(Image Schooner)
Conus wittigi Walls
1977...32 mm...Indonesia (Image Schooner)
Conus wittigi f. kongaensis Da Motta 1984 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- A weak form, based upon pattern - not really different enough in such a variably-patterned
species.
Distribution: Konga Island, Indonesia
Maximum size: 42 mm
Conus wittigi kongaensis Da Motta, A.J. da, 1984.
? Conus (Dauciconus) worki
(Petuch 1998) (Image Paul Kersten)
- Described as a valid species and still considered by some to be such. Member of
the "daucus Hwass complex"; smooth, glossy shell; regarded by most
authors as a form of Conus daucus Hwass 1792; regarded by Filmer as a valisd species
- spire flattened; early whorls
and protoconch pale orange; base colour yellow-orange or orange-pink with a distinct
thin white or pale orange mid-body band; band overlaid with large brown flammules
and rows of large brown dots; regarded by Renata Gomes as valid (thesis 2004)
Distribution: Brazil
Maximum size: 70,5 mm
Conus worki (Petuch 1998) (Images from Eddie Hardy's Site)
See also: http://www.conchasbrasil.org.br/conquiliologia/descricao.asp?id=12
Conus xanthicus Dall 1910 - Guaymas Cone (Image from the LACM collection, picture taken by J. Tucker)
Distribution: Mexico Guaymas, Galapagos?
Maximum size: 50 mm
Conus xanthicus
Dall 1910 - Guaymas Cone
(Image from the LACM collection, picture taken by J. Tucker)
Conus xanthicus
Dall 1910 - Guaymas Cone
(Image from the LACM collection, picture taken by J. Tucker)
Conus xanthicus
Dall 1910 (Image C & S Shell Cabinet)
?
Conus xanthocinctus Petuch 1980 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- Described as a valid species and considered by most as such still. According to
Tucker a synonym of Conus cingulatus Lamarck 1810: According to Filmer a synonym
of Conus clenchi Martins 1943 which is a synonym of Conus lemniscatus Reeve
1849; elongate, slender, thin and fragile, smooth shiny body whorl, bright golden-yellow
coloured with three orange yellow bands, on just below the shoulder, one around the
mid-body and one around the anterior end, sipral rows of brown dashes and scattered
with flammules; according to Renata Gomes (thesis 2004) a synonym of Conus clenchi
Martins 1943 which is in her opinion a valid species
Distribution: Brazil
Maximum size: 47 mm
Conus xicoi Röckel 1987 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Angola
Maximum size: 30 mm
Conus xicoi Röckel
1987 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus
xicoi Röckel 1987 (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus
xicoi Röckel 1987 (Image
Paul Kersten)
Conus ximenes Gray 1839 - Interrupted Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: East Pacific
Maximum size: 61 mm
Conus
ximenes Gray 1839
(Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
Conus ximenes Gray
1839...46mm...Intriguing pair with similar patterns but
two very different shapes...Mexico. (Image Schooner)
Conus ximenes Gray
1839...44mm....Mexico (Image
Schooner)
Conus ximenes Gray
1839...29 to 44mm...Mexico (Image
Schooner)
Conus ximenes f. mahogani Reeve 1843 (Image
Paul Kersten)
- Regarded by Filmer and J. Tucker (Pers. Comm. (Kersten)) as a valid species; See
main entry.
Distribution: Galapagos Islands, W. Panama, Pacific
Colombia
Maximum size: 48 mm
Conus ximenes f. mahogani Reeve 1843 (Image Paul Kersten)
?? Conus yemenensis
Bondarev 1997
- A valid species or a form of Conus inscriptus G.
Raybaudi Massilia & Rolán 1997 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Gulf of Aden Yemen
Conus yemenensis Bondarev 1997 (Image Giancarlo Paganelli)
?? Conus zapatosensis
Röckel 1987 - Zapatos Isl. Cone (Image
Paul Kersten)
- There is much confusion about the ID of zapatosensis/ blanfordianus
Distribution: Zapatos Isl., Philippines
Maximum size: 48 mm
Conus zapatosensis Röckel 1987 (Image from Gene Mallory's Site)
- There are doubts about the ID of the cones that are pictured. Maybe one of the forms of Conus blanfordianus Crosse 1867.
Conus zebra Delsaerdt 1992 (Image Paul Kersten)
(Conus nahoniaraensis Da Motta 1986) -Probably a synonym. The species is extremely variable and this taxa is sympatric with the nominatie form and not distinctive enough to be considered a "valid" form
Distribution : Indonesia, New Guinea, Solomon
Islands and Philippines
Maximum size : 29.3 mm
Conus zebra
Delsaerdt 1992 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus zebra
Delsaerdt 1992 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus zebroides Lamarck 1810 (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution : Angola
Maximum size : 40 mm
Conus zebroides Lamarck 1810 (Image Paul Kersten)
Conus zeylanicus Gmelin 1791 - Obese Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Indian Ocean: E. Africa to Indonesia
Maximum size: 75.7 mm
Conus zeylanicus
Gmelin 1791...59 mm...Zanzibar
(Image Schooner)
Conus zeylanicus Gmelin
1791...58 mm...Zanzibar
(Image Schooner)
Conus zeylanicus Gmelin
1791...52mm...Zanzibar (Image
Schooner)
Conus zeylanicus
Gmelin 1791...50 mm...Zanzibar. (Image Schooner)
Conus zeylanicus
Gmelin 1791...47 to 50 mm...India (Image Schooner)
?? Conus
ziczac Mühlfeld 1816
(Specimen from the Naturhistorisches Museum Vienna taken by Alan Kohn; image sent
by J. Tucker Illinois Natural History Survey)
- J. Tucker (Pers. Comm).: nomenclatural change is needed: he claims that Conus beddomei (and Conus mauricioi ? PK), Conus couderti, Conus archetypus and Conus brasiliensis are all forms of the same species, and should be renamed using the earliest name: Conus ziczac; See entries for these taxa for photos.... certainly this group needs more work!!
Distribution: West Atlantic Ocean
Conus zonatus Hwass 1792 - Zoned Cone (Image Paul Kersten)
Distribution: Indian Ocean: Seychelles to Bali
Maximum size: 84 mm
Conus zonatus Hwass
1792...52 mm...Thailand
(Image Schooner)
Conus zonatus Hwass
1792...50 mm...Maldives
(Image Schooner)
Conus zonatus Hwass
1792 ...45 mm....Maldives (Image Schooner)
Conus
zonatus Hwass 1792 (Image from Gene Mallory's
Site)
Conus zulu Petuch 1979 - form of Conus betulinus Linnaeus 1758; See there.
??Conus
(Magelliconus) zylmanae (Petuch 1998) Holotype (Image from
the University of Florida; cat. nr. 267864)
- According to Tucker a synonym of Conus cardinalis Hwass 1792
- Slightly pyriform shell with a silky texture; some specimens with 12-14 widely
spaced rows of very small beads; spire raised, angled, shoulder heavily coronated
with 16-18 knobs per whorl; shell and spire uniformly khaki-green; spire coronation
paler khaki-green; body whorl with irregulat scattered small white patches; mostly
around mid-body; protoconch and early whorls bright red-purple; aperture deep blue-purple
-
Distribution: Bahamas
Maximum size: 14 mm
Conus
(Magelliconus) zylmanae (Petuch 1998) (Image from
Bill Fenzan)
abbas
Hwass to cylindraceus Broderip & Sowerby
dalli
Stearns to lizarum Raybaudi & Da Motta
locumtenens
Blumenbach to rizali Olivera & Biggs
roberti Richard to zylmanae
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