Conus  cocceus  Reeve, 1844

 

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Picture Link: Lectotype in NHMUK Mike Filmer
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Published in: Conch. Icon. I,  Conus , pl. 42,  sp. 228
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: New Holland (Australia). Later restricted to Geographe Bay, West Australia
Type Data: Lectotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 31.2 x 16.2 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Floraconus Species:-cocceus
Synonyms:-
decrepitus Kiener, 1845
Geographic Range:-W. Australia from Albany area to N. W. Cape
Habitat:-Intertidal to 100 m; a sand-dwelling species also living on limestone platforms, beneath rocks or among granite boulders intertidally and in sand pockets subtidally.
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Moderately small to medium-sized, moderately light to moderately solid. Last whorl ventricosely conical or ovate; outline convex adapically, less so toward base; left side straight to slightly concave or constricted near base. Shoulder rounded. Spire of moderate height, outline convex. Larval shell of 1.75-2 whorls, maximum diameter 1.2-1.5 mm. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat to moderately convex, with 2 increasing to 5-8 spiral grooves. Last whorl with fine and closely spaced spiral ribs; ribs may be obsolete adapically.
Ground colour white or pinkish grey. Last whorl with spiral rows of alternating white and yellow to orangish brown dots, dashes, spots or bars and with confluent yellow to orangish brown flames and clouds that may be concentrated in 2-3 spiral bands. Larval whorls white, violet or pale brown. Postnuclear sutural ramps with yellow to orangish brown radial markings. Pattern elements often weak or absent both on spire and last whorl. Aperture white to light pink.
Shell Morphometry
L 25-54 mm
RW 0.07-0.26 g/mm
RD 0.60-0.71
PMD 0.71-0.85
RSH 0.13-0.22
Discussion:-

 

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Conus  coccineus  Gmelin, 1791

 

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Picture Link: Representation of Lectotype Knorr (1771,  pl. 24,  fig. 2)

Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Picture Link: Paul kersten

 

Published in: Syst. Nat. 13th ed. Vol. 1, pt,  p. 3390
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: None, neotype from Samar, Philippines
Type Data: A representative type figure has been recorded as: Knorr (1771,  pl. 24,  fig. 2)
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Rolaniconus Species:-coccineus
Synonyms:-
anglicus Gmelin, 1791; solandri Broderip & Sowerby, 1830
Geographic Range:-E. Indonesia, Philippines, Queensland, New Caledonia, Solomon Is., and Vanuatu.
Habitat:-In 1-20 m, at exposed coral reef sites and in coral rubble.
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Moderately small to moderately large, moderately solid. Last whorl ovate to conoid-cylindrical, sometimes cylindrical; outline convex to almost straight and parallel-sided adapically; left side concave basally. Shoulder angulate, undulate to weakly tuberculate. Spire of low to moderate height. Larval shell of about 2 whorls, maximum diameter 0.8-0.9 mm. Early postnuclear whorls tuberculate, late whorls tuberculate to undulate. Teleoconch sutural ramps tlat, with 1-3 increasing to 5-7 spiral grooves. Last whorl with closely spaced, variably granulose spiral ribs.
Colour variable: white, pink, orange, to dark brown. Last whorl with a white central-band, usually containing brown blotches above and spirally arranged dots below. In light coloured specimens. spiral ribs outside the central band occasionally bear dark spiral lines. Larval whorls and first 2-4 postnuclear sutural ramps white to pink; following sutural ramps matching the colour of last whorl, often with darker radial blotches; sutural margins usually darker. Aperture white to violet.
Shell Morphometry
L 30-62 mm
RW 0.11-0.26 g/mm
RD 0.51-0.63
PMD 0.71-0.83
RSH 0.11-0.18
Discussion:-

 

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Conus  coelinae  Crosse, 1858

 

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Picture Link: Holotype in IRSN Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Living Animal: David Massemin  New Caledonia

 

Published in: Rev. Mag. Zool. 2,  p. 117, pl. 2,  f. 1
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: New Caledonia
Type Data: Holotype in IRSN deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 116 x 57 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Virgiconus Species:-coelinae
Synonyms:-
spiceri Bartsch & Rehder, 1943; pseudocoelinae Delsaerdt, 1989
Geographic Range:-Hawaii - New Caledonia; Philippines
Habitat:-Intertidal to about 55 m. C. c. coelinae on sand bottoms to about 35 m
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Moderately large to large, solid to heavy. Last whorl conical; outline straight, except convex below shoulder. Shoulder angulate to sharply angulate. Spire usually low, outline slightly sigmoid. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat to sigmoid, with numerous often faint spiral striae in later whorls. Entire last whorl with rather closely spaced spiral threads, usually more prominent basally.
Colour white, variably suffused with yellow. Last whorl ccasionally with a paler spiral band at centre. Base violet or occasionally white in C. c. coelinae , lemon yellow in C. c. spiceri. Larval whorls white. Aperture white.
Discussion:-C. coelinae is similar to C. virgo, C. berdulinus and C. kintoki. C. virgo can be distinguished by the blue violet basal parts of its shell, purplish larval whorls, and its coarser spiral sculpture on the sutural ramps. C. berdulinus has a less angulate shoulder, smoother last whorl with violet, cream or orange shades, and a thin periostracum. The two subspecies we characterize are geographiclly widely separated, yet their shells differ only in that C. c. spiceri attains larger maximum size and its base is lemmon yellow, in contrast to the violet base of C. c. coelinae. RKK do not agree with Delsaerdt's (1989) statement that the holotype of C. coelinae represents a specimen of C. c. spiceri from Hawaii, because its base is white instead of lemon yellow. Specimens of C. c. coelinae with such uncoloured bases are known to occur in New Caledonia.

 

 

Conus coelinae spiceri  Bartsch & Rehder, 1943

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in USNM Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

 

Published in: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 56,  p. 87
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Midway Atoll
Type Data: Holotype in USNM deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 67.5 x 41 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Subspecies of Conus coelinae Crosse, 1858
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Virgiconus Species:-coelinae spiceri subsp.
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Midway; Hawaii
Habitat:-Intertidal to about 55 m. C. c. coelinae on sand bottoms to about 35 m.
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Moderately large to large, solid to heavy. Last whorl conical; outline straight, except convex below shoulder. Shoulder angulate to sharply angulate. Spire usually low, outline slightly sigmoid. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat to sigmoid, with numerous often faint spiral striae in later whorls. Entire last whorl with rather closely spaced spiral threads, usually more prominent basally.
Colour white, variably suffused with yellow. Last whorl ocasionally with a paler spiral band at centre. Base violet or occasionally white in C. c. coelinae , lemon yellow in C. c. spiceri. Larval whorls white. Aperture white.
Discussion:-No Data

 

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Conus  coffeae  Gmelin, 1791

 

Pictures:.
Picture Link: Holotype in NATURALIS, LEIDEN Bill Fenzan
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Radula Picture: Manuel Tenorio

 

Published in: Syst. Nat. 13th ed. Vol. 1, pt, p. 3388
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: None
Type Data: Holotype in NATURALIS, LEIDEN deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 27 x 16 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Leporiconus Species:-coffeae
Synonyms:-
caffer Roding, 1798; scabriusculus Dillwyn, 1817; fabula Sowerby ii, 1833
Geographic Range:-W. and Central Pacific, except for Hawaii and Marquesas; W. Thailand and Java.
Habitat:-In 2 to about 30 m. In Fiji, in and under corals as well as on sand. In New Caledonia, mostly on dead coral on reef flats in 2-15 m
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Moderately small to medium sized, moderately light to moderately solid. Last whorl ventricosely conical to broadly and ventricosely conical; occasionally ovate; outline convex at adapical third, almost straight below; left side slightly concave near base. Shoulder subangulate to rounded, sometimes nearly indistinct. Spire of moderate height, outline almost straight to slightly convex. Maximum diameter of larval shell about 0.65 mm. First 5 postnuclear whorls tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps slightly convex, with 0-1 increasing to 3-4 spiral grooves, gradually finer and inconspicuous in later whorls. Last whorl with fine closely spaced, mostly granulose spiral ribs from base to shoulder.
Ground colour white, often suffused with pale violet. Last whorl with 2 solid or interrupted brown spiral bands, intermittently connected by axial markings. Occasionally entire last whorl overlaid with brown except for a spiral row of white areas at centre or below shoulder. Base violet. Larval shell and about first 4 postnuclear sutural ramps pink. Following sutural ramps matsching last whorl in colour pattern. Aperture violet with a pale band at centre, bluish white in larger specimens.
Shell Morphometry
L 28-51 mm
RW 0.13-0.30 g/mm
(L 33-45 mm)
RD 0.62-0.72
PMD 0.71-0.85
RSH 0.13-0.22
Discussion:-C. coffeae resembles C. glans and C. tenuistriatus. C. glans can be distinguished by its usually narrower and cylindrical last whorl (RD 0.52-0.65), generally less distinct shoulder and more prominent spiral sculpture on the teleoconch sutural ramps; its colour pattern is dominated by bluish brown rather than pure brown. C. tenuistriatus also differs in a narrower last whorl (RD 0.47-0.62) and less distinct shoulder; its aperture lacks the pale central band often present in C. coffeae.

 

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Conus  coletteae  Petuch, 2013

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype FMNH  D. Sargent
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Published in: Biogeography and Biodiversity of Western Atlantic Mollusks; p. 220, p. 136 fig. 9.6, f & g
Ocean geography: Western Atlantic
Type Locality: off St. James, Barbados
Type Data: Holotype in FMNH deposited and catalogued
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: a synonym of roberti Richard, 2009, see Discussion
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:- CONILITHINAE
Genus:-Dalliconus Species:-coletteae
Synonyms:-

Geographic Range:-Barbados
Habitat:-Dredged from 300 m
Description: Shell narrow, slender, with slightly convex sides; shoulder sharply-angled, ornamented with 20-24 small rounded beadlike knobs per whorl; subsutural area sharply sloping; spire highly elevated, protracted, scalariform, approximately one-third length of entire shell; body whorl ornamented with 30-32 deeply-incised thin spiral sulci, producing grooved, rough-textured appearance; body whorl color pale cream-white to white, overlaid with 4 bands of light brown rectangularspots and scattered large longitudinal amorphous flammules; in some specimens, rectangular spot pattern dominates while in others (like the holotype) longitudinal flammules dominate; spire whorls 12-14 evenly spaced small crescent-shaped flammules per whorl; protoconch white, proportionally large and bulbous, composed of two and one-half whorls; aperture uniformly narrow, straight, white within anterior.
Discussion:-

Rabiller and Richard Xenophora Taxonomy 24 2019: genetical analysis confirms that roberti and coletteae are identical.

 

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Conus  collisus  Reeve, 1849

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Representation of Lectotype Reeve (1849, Conus suppl. Pl. 8, sp. 273)
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Published in: Conch. Icon. i. Conus, Suppl. pl. viii,  sp. 273
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Phuket, Thailand
Type Data: A representative type figure has been recorded as: Reeve (1849: Conus suppl. Pl. 8, sp. 273)
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Asprella Species:-collisus
Synonyms:-
stigmaticus A. Adams, 1854; straturatus Sowerby ii, 1865; albospira Smith, 1880;
Geographic Range:-S India - Solomons; South China Sea
Habitat:-Deep or shallow
Description:-Philippines; S. India to Solomons
Moderately light in weight, with a good gloss;low conical, the sides slightly convex;body whorl with widely spaced spiral grooves basally,marking wide flat ribs extending past midbody; shoulder roundly angled, not distinct from spire; spire moderate, sharply pointed, the sides deeply concave; whorls convex above; body whorl white to bluish white, sometimes tan, covered with axial series of pale brown to blackish spots heavier in bands at shoulder and midbody;usually spots fuse in smeared axial flammules or broken bands; very blotchy; base white tan; spire and shoulder colored like body blotches radiating; aperture moderately narrow, widening anteriorly; outer lip thin, sharp, straight/convex; mouth dark violet, pale violet,white often with small brown spot; columella long, narrow, indented;
C. collisus shoulder more or less angulate; mouth pale to deep violet; spots tend to fuse to axial blotches and sometimes flammules,usually yellowish brown; In Solomons blotches are covered with tan which may cover shell;
C. andamanensis ( the real one!) much paler, the spots yellowish brown; usually three bands of spirally scattered smeared spots or blotches and scattered small spots; mouth is white with violet within; 26 mm – 31 mm.
Discussion:-The shells that were offered as Conus collisus and labelled as such are in fact Conus stigmaticus M. Filmer  Visaya 2012

 

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Conus  colmani  Röckel  &  Korn, 1990

 

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Picture Link: Paul kersten

 

Published in: Acta Conchyliorum Nr. 2, p. 16, pl. 8, f. 1-4,  pl. 9, f. 1-7,  pl.
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: SE of Swain Reefs. Great Barrier Reef. Queensland. Australia
Type Data: Holotype in AMS deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 42 x 23.6 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Asprella Species:-colmani
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Swain Reefs, Queensland
Habitat:-In 170-250 m, on grey mud and sand
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Medium-sized, moderately solid. Last whorl conical or ventricosely conical to broadly conical or broadly and ventricosely conical, outline variably convex adapically and straight below; left side constricted just above base. In subadult specimens, last whorl may be slightly pyriform, outline slightly sigmoid. Shoulder angulate. Spire of low to moderate height, outline concave to nearly straight. Larval shell of about 2 whorls, maximum diameter 1.05-1.15 mm. First 3-6 postnuclear whorls tuberculate; specimens of about 45 mm with 8.5 teleoconch whorls. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat, with 1 increasing to 5-8 spiral grooves. Last whorl often with spiral ribs at base and a few weak spiral ribbons above; sometimes ribbons prominent, spirally striate and extending to shoulder; last whorl may also have groups of sometimes finely granulose elevations, each consisting of 2-3 fine spiral ribs anteriorly and 1 ribbon or 2 coarse ribs posteriorly.
Ground colour white. Last whorl with 3 axially connected spiral rows of yellowish-brown to orange axial streaks and flames, below shoulder and on each side of centre; adapical markings partially extending to spire. Larval whorls white. Postnuclear sutural ramps with radial lines and streaks matching last whorl pattern in colour. Aperture white.
Shell Morphometry
L 35-52 mm
RW 0.20-0.35 g/mm
RD 0.62-0.73
PMD 0.81-0.90
RSH 0.07-0.19
Discussion:-

 

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Conus  colombi  Monnier & Limpalaër,  2012

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in MNHN Eric Monnier

Picture Link: Paul Kersten

 

Published in: Visaya 5(3)
Ocean geography: West Atlantic and Caribbean
Type Locality: La Vauclin Bay, East coast of Martinique Island, (in shallow water).
Type Data: Holotype in MNHN deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 19.3 x 10.7 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Dauciconus Species:-colombi
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Martinique on Atlantic coast
Habitat:-found in shallow water from 0.5 to 3 meters in sand, sea grass beds and rocks.
Description:-Source Original Description
Small shell. The spire is slightly concave. The surface is smooth and glossy. The posterior three quarters of the last whorl are smooth. The anterior end has four to six deep incised striae of square section.
The ground color of the shell varies from white to brown with a purplish hue. One or a few white spots are often seen at midbody. This background is overlaid by 25 to 30 narrow spiral lines of brown dots. The spire is white with brown blotches of the same brown color than the spiral lines. The interior of the aperture is purplish beige to white.
Discussion:-

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Conus  colombianus  Petuch, 1987

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in USNM Mike Filmer

Published in: New Carib. Moll. Faunas,  p. 114,  pl. 17,  f. 11 & 12
Ocean geography: West Atlantic and Caribbean
Type Locality: Off Islas del Rosario, Colombia; 35 m
Type Data: Holotype in USNM deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 22 x 13 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus magellanicus Hwass in Bruguiere, 1792
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Purpuriconus Species:-magellanicus colombianus forma
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Colombia
Habitat:-Found around 35 m
Description:-Source Original description
Shell small for genus, stocky, broad across shoulder; spire low, flattened; shoulder sharp-angled; body whorl smooth, with 10 small spiral cords around anterior end; spire with 4 spiral threads; shell pale yellow with 4 closely- spaced brown lines around body whorl just below {anterior of) mid- body; brown flammules and white blotches run through 4 lines and extend over anterior tip; body whorl above (posterior of)   mid- body line without markings or pattern; spire marked with large, evenly-spaced orange-tan flammules; spire flammules extend onto sharp edge of shoulder, giving shoulder checkered appearance; interior of aperture white.
Discussion:-Filmer has as synonym of C. magellicanus but Western Atlantic DB has as synonym of C. amphiurgus.
Although dead- collected and quite faded, enough characteristics remain to show that Conus colombianus is quite different from any other known Caribbean cone shell. In shape, and in having a smooth, sharp-angled shoulder, it somewhat resembles C. mayaguensis Usticke from Puerto Rico {endemic to that island), but differs in having a two-toned color pattern, with an unpatterned posterior half and a flammuled and lined anterior half. Conus colombianus appears to belong to the C. magellanicus Hwass species complex and is the only species of the group to have such a two-toned color pattern. A fresh specimen would probably be orange with darker orange- brown markings. This new species may be endemic to the coral reef areas around the archipelago of the Islas del Rosario.
Tucker suggests a grouping with C.  havanensis.

 

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Conus  colorovariegatus  Kosuge, 1981

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in IMT Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Picture Link: Paul Kersten

 

Published in: Bull. Inst. Malacol. Tokyo. I,  no. 6,  p. 94,  pl. 32,  f. 1-5
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Bohol Is., Philippines
Type Data: Holotype in IMT deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 63.3 x 27.4 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym colour form of Conus neptunus Reeve, 1843
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Asprella Species:-neptunus colorovariegatus forma
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Philippines
Habitat:-Found at depths of 120-240 m
Description:-Source Living Conidae   C. neptunus
In form colorovariegatus, network pattern replaced by confluent brown blotches sometimes colouring last whorl solid brown.
Discussion:-No Data

 

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Conus  coltrorum  Petuch & Myers, 2014

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in MZSP  Petuch & Myers
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

 

Published in: Xenophora Taxonomy 3 p. 28 – 29 with pic., Figure 1 A & B
Ocean geography: West Atlantic and Caribbean
Type Locality: off Vitoria, Espiritu Santo State, Brazil
Type Data: Holotype in MZSP deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 73 x 32 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Conasprelloides Species:-coltrorum
Synonyms:-

Geographic Range:-Brazil
Habitat:-60 m depth
Description:-Original description
Shell large for genus, elongated, slender, with slightly concave sides; shoulder sharply angled but slightly rounded along edge; spire protracted, subpyramidal, elevated, slightly scalariform, with distinctly stepped whorls; spire whorls ornamented with three large spiral cords, with central cord being larger and better developed than cords on either side; body whorl heavily ornamented with 32-36 large, closely-packed spiral cords, with cords becoming stronger and better developed toward anterior end; numerous faint, wrinkle-like longitudinal folds present on body whorl, producing slightly corrugated appearance; aperture uniformly narrow; earliest whorls ornamented with small beads around periphery; body whorl and most of spire pure white in color; interior of aperture pure white; protoconch and early whorls pale tannish-yellow in color; protoconch proportionally large, rounded, composed of two whorls; periostracum thick, adherent, rough-textured, dark brown-black in color.

Discussion:- The species has always been misidentified as “Conus atractus Tomlin, 1937” or “Conus cancellatus Hwass, 1792”

 

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Conus  colubrinus  Lamarck, 1810

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Lectotype in MNHN Mike Filmer

Published in: Ann. du Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) xv,  p. 433
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Mers des Grandes Indes
Type Data: Lectotype in MNHN deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 53 x 24 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus pennaceus Born, 1778
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Darioconus Species:-pennaceus colubrinus forma
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Mozambique
Habitat:-From the infralittoral fringe to about 50 m; most frequently on subtidal coral reef flats in 0.5-5 m of water, in coral rubble, sand and muddy sand, often under rocks and amongst or under living corals.
Description:-Source Living Conidae    C. pennaceus
Form colubrinus: A narrow form of light orange yellow with white tents
Discussion:-No Data

 

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Conus  columba  Hwass in Bruguiere,  1792

 

Pictures:

Picture Link: Lectotype  Mike Filmer

Picture Link: Paul Kersten

 

Published in: Enc. Méth. 1,  p. 709, no. 101, (1798, Tab. Enc. pl. 334, fig 3)

Ocean geography: West Atlantic and Caribbean

Type Locality: Corrected (Vink) Fort de France, Martinique, (Windward Islands)

Type Data: Type figure designated, (Clench) figure in Gualtieri, 1742, pl. 25, fig. G, (fig. 29 x 19 mm)

Type Size: 29 x 19 mm

Nomenclature: An available name

Taxonomy: A form of Conus puncticulatus

Current Group Names:-

Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE

Genus:-Leptoconus Species:-puncticulatus f. columba

Synonyms:-

Geographic Range:-West Indies

Habitat:-

Description: C. puncticulatus columba differs from typical C. puncticulatus in being often proportionally wider at the shoulder and having more pronounced widely spaced grooves anteriorly. Most specimens are completely white, pinkish white or white with very small faint dots of brown. Juvenile specimens may have brown axial flames, and occasionally large specimens with dark markings like typical C. puncticulatus are found in populations of otherwise perfectly white specimens. Also pustulose forms exist, sometimes only a few cords near the middle of the body whorl are pustulose.
Discussion:-No Data

 

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Conus  comatosa  Pilsbry, 1904

 

Pictures:

Picture Link: Lectotype of Conus dormitor in ANSP Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Radula Picture: Manuel Tenorio

 

Published in: Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 56, 550
Ocean geography:Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Kikai, Osuma, S Japan.(C. dormitor Pilsbry fossil form)
Type Data: Lectotype in ANSP deposited and catalogued  (C.dormitor)
Type Size: 44 x 16 mm
Nomenclature: an available name, a new replacement name (nomen novum) for C. dormitor Pilsbry, 1904 (fossil)
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONILITHIDAE SubFamily:-CONILITHINAE
Genus:-Bathyconus Species:-comatosa
Synonyms:-
dormitor Pilsbry, 1904; schepmani Fulton, 1936
Geographic Range:-Japan, Philippines, N. W. Australia, Solomon Is., and New Caledonia; recently reported from Vietnam.
Habitat:-In 80-400 m, in sand and coral rubble
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Moderately small to medium-sized and light to moderately solid. Last whorl narrowly conical or conical to usually slightly pyriform; outline straight to slightly convex adapically, straight to slightly concave below. Shoulder sharply angulate to carinate, sometimes also tuberculate, with a rather deep exhalent notch. Spire of moderate height to high, variably stepped; outline concave. Larval shell of about 3.5 whorls, maximum diameter about 1.1 mm; type specimens of C. schepmani with 2.5-3 larval whorls. First 6-9, sometimes all postnuclear whorls tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps concave, with radial threads and 1 increasing to 3-5 spiral grooves, and a few spiral striae in latest whorls. Entire last whorl with regularly spaced punctate spiral grooves separating flat ribbons; in large specimens, spiral sculpture weak on adapical fourth.
Ground colour white. Last whorl with 4 spiral rows of brown flecks, often fusing into variably continuous bands, located below shoulder, on both sides of centre and at base. Type specimens of C. schepmani with only 2 bands. Spiral rows of heavily to sparsely developed brown dots and dashes on ribbons of last whorl. Larval whorls white. Postnuclear sutural ramps with scattered to closely set brown radial markings, partially with brown dots at outer margins. Aperture translucent white, occasionally with a brown or violet blotch deep within.
Shell Morphometry
L 31-50 mm
RW 0.03-0.15 g/mm
RD 0.41-0.56
PMD 0.78-0.88
RSH 0.18-0.26
Two patterns usually strong with four spiral bands of axial brown blotches, fusing to almost create bands; other is weaker with numerous square brown spots on ribs aligned often in axial pattern and poorly defined blotches
Discussion:-. The synonymy of C. schepmani with C. comatosa remains uncertain (Coomans et al., 1986). The type specimens of C. schepmani are subadult; this growth stage may be responsible for a relatively higher spire (RSH 0.28) and heavier spiral sculpture of the last whorl in comparison with adult specimens of typical C. comatosa. The similarities in shape, colour pattern and sculpture of both last whorl and spire provisionally favour synonymy.

 

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Conus  compactus  Wils, 1970

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Lectotype in NATURALIS, LEIDEN Mike Filmer

Published in: Familie Conidae,  p. 12,  pl. 2, f. 7
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Nossy Be, Madagascar.
Type Data: Lectotype in NATURALIS, LEIDEN deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 71 x 43.1 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus imperialis Linnaeus, 1758
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Rhombiconus Species:-imperialis compactus forma
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Indian Ocean.
Habitat:-Intertidal to 240 m
Description:-Source Living Conidae   C imperialis
C. i. compactus used for shells from Indian Ocean which and broader and have weaker shoulder nodules.

Discussion:-No Data

 

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Conus  compressus  Sowerby ii, 1866

 

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Published in: Thes. Conch. Iii,  p. 325, pl. 25 (286),  f. 602-3
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Not known
Type Data: Holotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 24 x 10 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Floraconus Species:-compressus
Synonyms:-
atractus Tomlin, 1937
Geographic Range:-S Australia, Houtman Abrolhos
Habitat:-Offshore
Description:-Source Original description and type
C. compressus has high stepped spire with rounded margins of whorls. Early whorls are carinate. Slim long eliptical shape of body whorl. White with pinkish orange bands breaking into axial flammules on body and spire.
Sowerby notes that it similar to C. anemone but slimmer with many more turns in given diameter than C. anemone.
Discussion:-RKK consider it a local form of C. anemone from the Houtman Abrolhos (see Kendrick & Ryland, 1981)

 

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Conus  concatenatus  Kiener,  1845

 

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Picture Link: Rep. Figure Kiener Plate 110,  fig. 1

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Published in: Spec. Gen. Icon. des Coq. Viv. 2, p. 362, pl. 110, f. 1
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Not known
Type Data: Holotype was in collection Lorois and currently assumed to be lost
Type Size: 35 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus textile Linnaeus, 1758
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Cylinder Species:-textile concatenatus forma
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Indo Pacific
Habitat:-Intertidal to about 50 m; on coral reef from the reef crest to deeper water inside the lagoon and sometimes also on flats of mainland coasts.
Description:-Source Living Conidae   C. textile
C. concatenatus is a form of C. textile with a very reduced reticulate pattern.
Discussion:-No Data

 

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Conus conco   Limpelaër, Monnier & Bouchet, 2015

 

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Picture Link: Holotype in MNHN

Picture Link: Paul KerstenHNH

Published in: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 80 (2014) 186 - 192; Supplementary data 1: Description of Conus conco new species; fig. A1 F - G
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Taioha’e Bay, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
Type Data: Holotype in MNHN deposited and catalogued
Type Size: not mentioned; ranging from 37,4 mm to 56,8 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Lividoconus Species:-conco
Synonyms:-

Geographic Range:- Nuku Hiva, Ua Pou, Tahuata and Ua Huka, Marquesas archipelago
Habitat:-Collected under stones in 8 meters in Tahuata and in crevices between 15 and 30 m in Nuku Hiva
Description:-Source original description
Shell of medium size, ranging from 37.4 mm to 56.8 mm. Shape of the last whorl conical, constant in PMD (average 0.958) and RD (average 0.625). Spire low, with strongly tuberculated shoulder. Average RSH is 0.118. Number of tubercles on the last whorl varies from 10 to 11. Protoconch eroded in all studied specimens and number of its whorls unknown; deep pink in color from observation of the best preserved ones. Adult shell with 11 - 12 teleoconch whorls. Spire outline straight with pointed apex. Sutural ramp shows up to six irregular shallow spiral striae. Last whorl profile very slightly convex in the upper part of the last whorl and straight below.

Aperture slightly widening abapically. Holotype shell smooth on the adapical half of the last whorl and sculptured by narrow widely separated cords on the abapical part. In some specimens shell almost completely smooth, in others cords may be granulose. Shell color barely variable. Spire lavender to purple. First teleoconch whorls may have brown dots between the tubercles. Last whorl with lavender to mauve ground color overlaid with a plain beige coat missing in a wide, diffuse, mid-body and at periphery. Anterior extremity darker than the rest of the body whorl. Aperture deep violet or blue becoming lighter towards the interior and with a paler band in the middle.
Discussion:- C. conco is quite homogeneous with an average size of 48 mm, a minimum of 37.4 mm and a maximum of 56.8 mm (one specimen illustrated by Röckel et al. (1995). Conus lividus differs from C. conco by its colour. The former is olive or yellowish brown; the spire and shoulder are completely white. No shell of C. lividus shows lavender to purple background color. Conus sanguinolentus, which is sympatric with the new species in the Marquesas, has brown spots between the spire tubercles but it never has a lavender to purple background color; pustules are more frequently present on the abapical cords.

 

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Conus  concolor  Sowerby ii,  1841

 

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Published in: Conch. Illus. pt. 54,  f. 59
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Designated Solomon Islands  (C. unicolor Sowerby, 1834)
Type Data: Lectotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued (C. unicolor)
Type Size: 45 x 23 mm
Nomenclature: an available name, a new replacement name (nomen novum) for C. unicolor Sowerby 1834.
Taxonomy: Subspecies of Conus hyaena Hwass in Bruguiere, 1792
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Rhizoconus Species:-hyaena concolor subsp.
Synonyms:-
unicolor Sowerby ii, 1834
Geographic Range:-C. h. concolor known from the Solomon Is. and Papua New Guinea, recently reported from the Indonesian area.
Habitat:-C. h. concolor subtidal between 3 and 30 m.
Description:-Source Living Conidae   C. hyaena
C. h. concolor chocolate brown to almost black, sometimes mid- brown or olivaceous. Occasionally last whorl either maculated with lighter axial streaks or encircled with faint rows of darker dots. Larval whorls beige or pale pink; adjacent teleoconch sutural ramps light brown.
Discussion:-No Data

 

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Conus  condei  Afonso & Tenorio, 2014

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in MNCN  Manuel Tenorio

Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Published in: Xenophora Taxonomy 3, p. 52 – 54, Fig. 7, pl. 3
Ocean geography: East Atlantic and West Africa
Type Locality:
Baía Grande do Derrubado on the Northern coast of Boa Vista Island, Cape Verde Archipelago, West Africa
Type Data: Holotype in MNCN, deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 20,4 x 12,4 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Africonus Species:-condei
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:- Only known from the type locality
Habitat:-
This is a shallow water species, rarelyfound deeper than 1.5 metres. It lives in holes and crevices on rocky gravel bottom as well as under small stones and rocks near green mat anemones –benthic cnidarians (Hexacorallia: Zoantharia)
Description:-Source: Original description Xenophora Taxonomy
Shell is small to moderately small. Shell is solid, ventricosely to broadly ventricosely conical with a rounded shoulder and a low spire. Spire profile

straight to sigmoid when well-preserved. Sutural ramps are convex, with 3 – 4 spiral cords becoming obsolete in later whorls, often badly eroded. The shell is honey brown colored with fine, equally spaced darker brown spiral lines that occupy the entire body whorl. Most specimens present a thin faded white-dotted band on the lower portion of the body whorl. The spire is darker brown, occasionally speckled with tiny white dots. The aperture is white with a shade of violet on the upper portion. The periostracum is thin, light brown in colour. The operculum is small.

Shells of A. condei sp. nov. are subject to spire and dorsal erosion, correction scars and calcareous algae incrustations. This is a relatively rare and seldom seen species.

Discussion:-

Abalde et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology (2017) 17:231

Phylogenetic relationships of cone shells endemic to Cabo Verde based on mitochondrial genomes

New species proposed:  Africonus crotchii  Reeve, 1849

 

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Conus  condensus  Sowerby ii, 1866

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Representation of Lectotype Thes. Conch..iii,  pl. 26 (287),  f. 622

 

Published in: Thes. Conch.. iii,  p. 326,  pl. 26 (287),  f. 622
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Sandwich Is. [erroneous]
Type Data: A representative type figure has been recorded as: Thes. Conch..iii,  p. 326,  pl. 26 (287),  f. 622
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym of Conus canonicus Hwass in Bruguiere, 1792
Current Group Names:-
Not appropriate for the name condensus

 

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Conus  confusa  Bozzetti,  2010  A nomen nudum, only listed for reference

 

Published in: Malacologia 69
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Not Known
Type Data: There is no known specimen
Nomenclature: A nomen nudum:- an unavailable name (nomen nudum), described as a form post 1960.
Taxonomy: Not applicable
Current Group Names:-
Not appropriate for the name confusa

 

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Conus  congruens  Korn, W. & G.  Raybaudi Massilia, 1993

 

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Picture Link: Holotype in SMNS Mike Filmer

Published in: La Conchiglia xxv,  no. 268,  p. 33, f. 1,  1a-1c,  3, 6,  pl. 1, f. 3
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Gulf of Aden, off northern Somalia.
Type Data: Holotype in SMNS deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 10.9 x 5.8 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Subspecies of Conus biraghii Raybaudi, G.(Massilia), 1992
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONILITHIDAE SubFamily:-CONILITHINAE
Genus:-Lilliconus Species:-biraghii congruens subsp.
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Djibouti, Gulf of Aden
Habitat:-Shallow water
Description:-Source Living Conidae
C. b. congruens with an often less ventricose last whorl. Shoulder often irregularly undulate due to weak axial subshoulder costae. Spire high, stepped; outline straight to slightly concave. Larval shell of 2-2.25 whorls, with widely spaced fine radial ridges; maximum diameter about 0.8 mm. Postnuclear spire whorls usually smooth, sometimes irregularly undulate due to very weak axial subshoulder costae. Teleoconch sutural ramps concave, often with 1 increasing to 2-3 weak or distinct spiral grooves in early whorls; spiral sculpture obsolete on late ramps. Last whorl with spiral ribs basally and 1-2 distinct spiral grooves just below shoulder; subshoulder grooves may be visible in stepped preceding spire whorls.
Discussion:-No Data

 

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Conus  consors  Sowerby  ii, 1833

 

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Picture Link: Representation of Lectotype Conch. Ill.Sowerby i (1833,  Pt. 36, fig. 42)

Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Radula Picture: Manuel Tenorio

 

Published in: Conch. Illus. pt. 36, f. 42
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Singapore
Type Data: A representative type figure has been recorded as: Sowerby i (1833, Pt. 36, fig. 42)
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Pionoconus Species:-consors
Synonyms:-
anceps A. Adams, 1854; innexus A. Adams, 1854; daullei Crosse, 1858; poehlianus Sowerby iii, 1887; turschi da Motta, 1985
Geographic Range:-Indo-Pacific to Marshall Is., Melanesia and Queensland; absent from Red Sea
Habitat:-Slightly subtidal to 200 m; in sand and silt. Form poehlianus to 35 m in adult stage and to 50 m in juvenile stage, near river mouths, on reef and fore-reef; in silt, coral sand and rubble with sand, often beneath rotting logs . In New Caledonia, form anceps and typical form from 5 m on the reef to 67 m within the lagoon ; in Philippines, both forms in 40-80 m but may range to 200 m. Type specimens of form turschi from 35-75 m.
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Medium-sized to large, moderately solid to heavy. Last whorl narrowly conical or narrowly conoid-cylindrical to ventricosely conical; outline convex adapically, straight below and sometimes slightly concave at centre. Siphonal fasciole varies from weak to prominent. Shoulder sharply angulate to almost rounded. Spire of low to moderate height, outline straight to slightly convex. Larval shell of about 3 whorls, maximum diameter about 0.8 mm. Adults of 50-90 mm with about 9-11 postnuclear whorls, the first 4-8 tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat to concave, with 2 increasing to 5-8 spiral grooves; occasionally latest ramps with 10-12 variably fine spiral grooves. Last whorl with spiral grooves at base, separating broad ribbons or strong ribs.
Ground colour white to pale brown; in subadult specimens of form poehlianus, white ground suffused with pale brownish violet. Last whorl with 1-2 spiral bands above and 1 band below centre; band nearest shoulder often interrupted or absent, or both adapical bands may fuse. Colour of bands ranges from yellowish brown to violet or dark brown. Dotted, dashed or solid brown spiral lines from base to shoulder, varying in number and arrangement. Form turschi (Pl. 19, Fig. 4; see below) often with additional straight to wavy blackish brown axial streaks or blotches. Larval shell brown. Early postnuclear sutural ramps with regularly set brown dots at outer margin; later ramps with brown radial markings of varying number and prominence. Aperture white.
Shell Morphometry
L 50-118 mm
RW 0.20-1.10 g/mm
(L 50-95 mm)
RD 0.44-0.63
PMD 0.77-0.88
RSH 0.08-0.20
C. anceps has yellowish to orange brown banding faint axial blotching;
C. daullei conoid cylindrical to conical with higher spires and dark brown pattern; W Indian Ocean
Discussion:-The nominal species C. consors, C. anceps, C. daullei, C. poehlianus, and C. turschi refer to forms of the same species with overlapping ranges. The typical form is strictly conical and has the broadest last whorl amongst all forms. Form anceps and form poehlianus are narrowly to ventricosely conical, not distinguishable from each other by shell shape, and differ only in the colour pattern (shades of spiral banding yellowish to orangish brown in form anceps vs. light brown to pale violet-brown or almost white in form poehlianus). Subadults of form poehlianus from the Solomon Is., Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu with 2-3 spiral rows of brown clouds and numerous spiral rows of alternating brown and white dots. During growth, the clouded pattern changes to a banded pattern of lighter colour and the dotted spiral lines usually disappear. Form anceps occurs broadly in the Western Pacific, form poehlianus in the Solomon Is., Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Philippines. Form turschi is based on a ventricosely conical variant with a distinctive colour pattern; it ranges from W. Thailand to the Solomon Is., Vanuatu and Queensland. Form daullei refers to shells from the western Indian Ocean, which are narrowly conoid-cylindrical to conical, have the highest spires among all forms of C. consors (RSH 0.13- 0.20 vs. 0.08-0.16 in other forms), and a dark brown pattern; this form intergrades in shape and pattern with the typical form in the Western Indian Ocean and with form turschi in W. Thailand. In the Solomon Is., form turschi lives syntopically and intergrades with the forms anceps and poehlianus. In Philippines, the typical form, form anceps, form turschi and form poehlianus all intergrade.

 

 

Conus  consors f. anceps  A.  Adams, 1854

 

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Picture Link: Lectotype in NHMUK Mike Filmer

Published in: Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1854,  p. 119
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Moluccas
Type Data: Lectotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 78 x 36 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus consors Sowerby ii, 1833
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Pionoconus Species:-consors anceps forma
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Form anceps occurs broadly in the Western Pacific
Habitat:-Slightly subtidal to 200 m; in sand and silt.
Description:-Source Living Conidae  C. consors
Form anceps is narrowly to ventricosely conical, not distinguishable from each other by shell shape, and differ only in the colour pattern (shades of spiral banding yellowish to orangish brown in form anceps)
Discussion:-No Data

 

 

Conus consors  f.  daullei  Crosse, 1858

 

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Picture Link: Holotype in IRSN Alan Kohn
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

 

Published in: Rev. Mag. Zool. 2,  p. 119, pl. 2, f. 2, 2 a
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Mayotte
Type Data: Holotype in IRSN deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 70 x 33 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus consors Sowerby ii, 1833
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Pionoconus Species:-consors daullei forma
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-W Indian Ocean
Habitat:-No Data
Description:-Source Living Conidae  C. consors
with the typical form in the Western Indian Ocean and with form turschi in W. Thailand.
Discussion:-Form daullei refers to shells from the western Indian Ocean, which are narrowly conoid-cylindrical to conical, have the highest spires among all forms of C. consors (RSH 0.13- 0.20 vs. 0.08-0.16 in other forms), and a dark brown pattern; this form intergrades in shape and pattern with the typical form in the Western Indian Ocean and with form turschi in W. Thailand.

 

 

Conus consors f. poehlianus  Sowerby iii, 1887

 

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Picture Link: Holotype in NHMUK Mike Filmer

Published in: Thes. Conch. v 2nd  suppl. p. 257,  pl. 31 (509),  f.  682
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: New Ireland
Type Data: Holotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size : 48 x 22 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus consors Sowerby ii, 1833
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Pionoconus Species:-consors poehlianus forma
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Philippines - New Guinea
Habitat:-Form poehlianus to 35 m in adult stage and to 50 m in juvenile stage, near river mouths, on reef and fore-reef; in silt, coral sand and rubble with sand, often beneath rotting logs.
Description:-Source Living Conidae   C. consors
In subadult specimens of form poehlianus, white ground suffused with pale brownish violet. Last whorl with 1-2 spiral bands above and 1 band below centre; band nearest shoulder often interrupted or absent, or both adapical bands may fuse. Colour of bands ranges from yellowish brown to violet or dark brown. Dotted, dashed or solid brown spiral lines from base to shoulder, varying in number and arrangement

Shell Morphometry
L 50-118 mm
RW 0.20-1.10 g/mm
(L 50-95 mm)
RD 0.44-0.63
PMD 0.77-0.88
RSH 0.08-0.20
Form poehlianus is narrowly to ventricosely conical, not distinguishable from each other by shell shape, and differ only in the colour pattern (shades of spiral banding yellowish to orangish brown.

 

 

Conus consors  f.  turschi  da Motta, 1985

 

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Picture Link: Holotype in MHNG Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

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Published in: Publ. Ocas. Soc. Port. Malac. no. 5,  p. 3, pl. 1,  f. 1 & 2, pl. 2, f. 4
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Andaman Sea off Kantang, Thailand; 35-70 m
Type Data: Holotype in MHNG deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 82.5 x 35 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus consors Sowerby ii, 1833
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Pionoconus Species:-consors turschi forma
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-W. Thailand to the Solomon Is., Vanuatu and Queensland.
Habitat:-Type specimens of form turschi from 35-75 m
Description:-Source Living Conidae  C. consors
Discussion:-Form turschi is based on a ventricosely conical variant with a distinctive colour pattern; it ranges from W. Thailand to the Solomon Is., Vanuatu and Queensland.

 

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Conus  conspersus  Reeve, 1844

 

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Published in: Conch. Icon. I,  Conus,  pl. 47,  sp. 262
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: not known, designated (C, M & W) the Moluccas, Indonesia.
Type Data: A representative type figure has been recorded as: Reeve (1844,  Pl. 47,  sp. 262)
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym colour form of Conus spectrum Linnaeus, 1758
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Asprella Species:-spectrum conspersus forma
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Philippines; Indonesia, Australia
Habitat:-Shallow water to 50 m
Description:-Source Filmer review in Visaya 2011
grooves. The color is ivory-white to pale cream with many axially aligned yellow, orange or pale tan blotches which vary in size and intensity. The shoulder is angulate to slightly rounded. The body whorl is convex below the shoulder and then almost straight. There are numerous rather fine spiral grooves which are stronger at the base. The ground color is ivory-white to cream.The pale yellowish-orange blotches may be dense or quite diffuse in different specimens.. There are numerous very fine pale brown to orange hair-like spiral lines on the body whorl, these lines may, in some specimens, be composed of fine dots. The aperture is rather wide especially towards the base. The interior of the aperture  is white to very pale fleshy white.
Discussion:-

 

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Conus  continua  Bozzetti, 2010  A nomen nudum; only listed for reference

 

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Published in: Malacologia 68, 12
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Not Known
Type Data: There is no known specimen
Nomenclature: A nomen nudum:- an unavailable name (nomen nudum), described as form of subspecies post 1960
Taxonomy: Not applicable
Current Group Names:-
Not appropriate for the name

 

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Conus  convolutus  Sowerby ii,  1858

 

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Picture Link: Lectotype in NHMUK Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

 

Published in: Thes. Conch. Iii, p. 44,  pl. 23 (209),  f. 564
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Lectotype (C, M & W) in BMNH; designated (Lauer) Madagascar
Type Data: Lectotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 59 x 24 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus omaria Hwass in Bruguiere, 1792
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Darioconus Species:-omaria convolutus forma
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Indian Ocean
Habitat:-Shallow subtidal to about 50 m, as deep as 100 m in W. Thailand; on coral reefs and in reef lagoons, in sand and rubble.
Description:-Source Living Conidae  C. omaria
C. convolutus refers to Indian Ocean specimens with straight-sided apices.
Discussion:-No Data

 

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Conus  corallinus  Kiener, 1845

 

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Picture Link: Holotype in collection Dupont. Spec. Gen. Icon. des Coq. Viv. pl. 73,  f. 2

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Published in: Spec. Gen. Icon. des Coq. Viv. 2,  p. 246, pl. 73, f. 2
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Mactan Is, Cebu (C,M&W)
Type Data: Holotype was in collection Dupont. and currently assumed to be lost
Type Size: 24 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Leporiconus Species:-corallinus
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Okinawa to Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia
Habitat:-In 6-240 m, associated with corals, sponges and sea-weed and among coral rubble.
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Small to moderately small, light. Last whorl conical to ventricosely conical; outline convex at adapical third, straight below. Shoulder angulate to subangulate. Spire of moderate height, outline straight to domed. Larval shell of 3- 3.5 whorls, maximum diameter 0.8-0.9 mm. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat to slightly convex, with 0-3 increasing to 4-7 fine spiral grooves, inconspicuous on latest ramps. Last whorl with spiral ribs at base.
Ground colour pale grey to pink. Last whorl with orange to pink, sometimes olive-brown to dark brown clouds and streaks, usually leaving a maculated light spiral band at centre; usually interrupted spiral ground-colour zones at base and centre. Often spiral rows of dark dashes or dots extending from base to shoulder. Larval whorls orange to pink. Postnuclear sutural ramps with darker radial lines and blotches. Aperture violet, with exterior pattern shining through.
Shell Morphometry
L 15-30 mm
RW 0.02-0.06 g/mm
(L 19-29 mm)
RD 0.52-0.61
PMD 0.81-0.93
RSH 0.17-0.23
Discussion:-

 

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Conus  corbieri  Blöcher,  1994

 

Pictures:

Picture Link: Holotype in SMNS Mike Filmer

Picture Link: Paul Kersten

 

Published in: World Shells (10),  p. 50, figs 5 - 7

Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific

Type Locality: Salary, southwestern Madasgascar

Type Data: Holotype in SMNS deposited and catalogued

Type Size: 54.6 x 29.4 mm

Nomenclature: An available name

Taxonomy: A subspecies

Current Group Names:-

Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE

Genus:-Darioconus Species:-pennaceus corbieri

Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms

Geographic Range:-Madagascar

Habitat:- In lagoon in shallow water

Description:  A color form with a reduced pattern with blotches and thin lined irregular tents, background white or whitish orange; last whorl conoid cylindrical.

 

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Conus  cordigera  Sowerby ii,  1866

 

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Picture Link: Lectotype in NHMUK Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Radula Picture: Manuel Tenorio

 

Published in: Thes. Conch.. iii,  p. 329,  pl. 21 (207),  f. 498
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Philippines
Type Data: Lectotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 61 x 31 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Eugeniconus Species:-cordigera
Synonyms:-
bitleri da Motta, 1984
Geographic Range:-Palawan and Sulu Archipelago (Philippines) to N. Timor Sea and Java (E. Indonesia).
Habitat:-Intertidal to 20 m; on sand or mud
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Moderately small to moderately large, moderately solid to solid; specimens described as C. bitleri somewhat smaller and more solid than typical shells. Last whorl conical to conoid-cylindrical, broader and conical to ventricosely conical in specimens described as C. bitleri; outline convex at adapical fourth, less so or straight below. Shoulder angulate. Spire low, outline concave; apex may project from an otherwise flat spire. Larval shell of about 2 whorls; maximum diameter about 0.6-0.7 mm. First 4-6 postnuclear whorls weakly tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat, slightly concave in late whorls, with prominent axial threads; 4-6 major spiral grooves on later ramps, sometimes weaker and often containing spiral threads in latest whorls. Last whorl with variably wide spiral grooves on basal third or somewhat beyond, separating ribs and ribbons.
Last whorl with a light yellowish brown to brown network of coarse lines and blotches, edging rather large white tents and flecks sometimes with darker outlining toward outer lip. Pattern often concentrates into adapical and abapical brown spiral bands. Shells with regularly reticulate pattern intergrade with shells with prominent spiral colour bands and with shells with a reduced network and large, often confluent white markings (described as C. bitleri). Apex white. Later sutural ramps with radial lines, streaks or blotches coalescing with last whorl pattern and of the same colour. Aperture white.
Shell Morphometry
L 35-72 mm
(-form bitleri 30-43 mm)
RW 0.13-0.42 g/mm
(L 35-60 mm; -form bitleri 0.22-0.32 g/mm; (L 30-36 mm))
RD 0.50-0.58
(-form bitleri 0.59-0.68)
PMD 0.82-0.90
RSH 0.01-0.11
(-form bitleri 0.05-0.13)
Discussion:-C. cordigera closely resembles C. nobilis. The latter species differs mainly in its non-tuberculate early and carinate later postnuclear whorls, and its coarse alternating brown and white spiral lines within the larger solid brown areas of its last whorl. Whether specimens from the Sulu Archipelago, described as C. bitleri, represent a form of sympatric C. cordigera or a separate species, can only be decided on the basis of reliable data on their anatomy. In Balabac, Palawan, typical specimens of C. cordigera intergrade with specimens of C. bitleri.

 

 

Conus cordigera f.  bitleri  da Motta, 1984

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in MHNG Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

 

Published in: La Conchiglia xvi, no. 178-9,  p. 24,  f. 1a-b
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Baliungan Id., Tawi Tawi Group, Celebes
Type Data: Holotype in MHNG deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 41.2 x 24.6 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus cordigera Sowerby ii, 1866
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Eugeniconus Species:-cordigera bitleri forma
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Tawi Tawi, Palawan, Philippines
Habitat:-Intertidal to 20 m; on sand or mud
Description:-Source Living Conidae   C. cordigera

Last whorl conical to conoid-cylindrical, broader and conical to ventricosely conical in specimens described as C. bitleri; outline convex at adapical fourth, less so or straight below. Shoulder angulate. Spire low, outline concave.
Shell obconical to low conical, squat and and moderately heavy, having nine flat surfaced spire whorls, finely threaded, topped by a projecting apex, with closely coiled suture; shoulder subangulate, concave on top, with ovately convex sides. Body whorl is white, decorated with light coffee-brown reticulations of rhomboid and heart shapes linked closely together throughout its surface, with two narrow clusters of coffee brown patches forming an interrupted spiral band below the shoulder, and another, above the anterior end. Occasional over-sized and distorted white patches disarange the otherwise regular pattern of the reticulations. Spire is entirely white in the earlier whorls, but the last three are tessellated with brown-and-white. Body whorl is smooth-surfaced with a dull gloss, but the basal end is incised with about seventeen rows of transverse sulci. Aperture is white and is slightly arching and flaring towards the base.

Shell Morphometry
L 30-43 mm
RW 0.13-0.42 g/mm
form bitleri 0.22-0.32 g/mm; (L 30-36 mm)
RD 0.59-0.68
RSH 0.05-0.13
Discussion:-No Data

 

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Conus  coriolisi  Moolenbeek  &  Richard, 1995

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in MNHN

Picture Link: Paul Kersten

 

Published in: Mem. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. clxvii, p. 578,  figs. 12 & 13
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Lord Howe Rise, Capel Bank, Coral Sea. (25deg 29' S. 159deg 46' E); 240 m
Type Data: Holotype in MNHN deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 44.6 x 16 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: valid: Puillandre et al. Zoologica Scripta, 40, 350 - 363
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONILITHIDAE SubFamily:-CONILITHINAE
Genus:-Bathyconus Species:-orbignyi coriolisi subsp.
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-New Caledonia; Coral Sea
Habitat:-Found at 150-550 m
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Medium-sized in C. o. coriolisi, medium sized to large in C. o. orbignyi, to moderately large in C. o. elokismenos, light to moderately solid. Last whorl often pyriform, also narrowly conical or narrowly conoid- cylindrical in C. o. orbignyi, also conical or narrowly conical in C. o. coriolisi and conical to ventricosely conical in C. o. elokismenos; outline slightly convex at adapical two-thirds, concave to straight below. Siphonal canal often deflected to the dorsal side. Aperture very narrow. Shoulder angulate to sharply angulate, with weak tubercles often disappearing toward aperture in large specimens; exhalent notch rather deep. Spire high, stepped; outline straight to slightly concave. Larval shell of about 4 whorls, maximum diameter 0.85-1 mm. Postnuclear whorls tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps slightly concave, with 0-1 increasing to 5-7 spiral grooves and with radial threads; in C. o. elokismenos spiral sculpture weaker on late ramps than in C. o. orbignyi. Entire last whorl with axially striate spiral grooves and ribbons between; 1-2 spiral ribs replacing ribbons just below shoulder. In C. o. orbignyi, spiral ribbons generally narrower and grooves wider than in C. o. elokismenos; some wide ribbons divided into pairs of narrow ribbons. In C. o. elokismenos, wide ribbons with spiral striae and surface sculpture weak on adapical fourth. In C. o. coriolisi, ribbons weak to obsolete adapically.
Ground colour white. Last whorl with rectangular brown spots on ribbons, aligned axially and also clustering in 3 spiral bands, below shoulder and on both sides of centre. In C. o. elokismenos, spots of adapical band variably fused into axial streaks. In C. o. coriolisi, pattern reduced to 3 interrupted bands. Larval whorls white to pale brown, often with a brown sutural line. Postnuclear sutural ramps with irregular brown streaks and brown spots at outer margin, often between tubercles. Aperture white, dark cream deep within.
Discussion:-No Data

 

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Conorbis  coromandelicus  Smith, 1894

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Syntype in ZSIC ZSIC Filmer

Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Radula Picture: Manuel Tenorio

 

Published in: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 6,  p. 159,  pl. iv,  f. 1 & 2
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Coromandel Coast, Bay of Bengal
Type Data: Syntype in ZSIC deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 37 x 14 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONILITHIDAE SubFamily:-CONILITHINAE
Genus:-Pseudoconorbis Species:-coromandelicus
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Bay of Bengal (Coromandel coast), Sri Lanka, Gulf of Oman.
Habitat:-Found at depths of 70-400 m
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Moderately small to medium-sized, moderately light to moderately solid. Last whorl ventricosely conical or conoid-cylindrical to pyriform; outline convex to straight adapically, straight to concave (right side) or concave (left side) below. Shoulder subangulate to rounded, slightly undulate. Spire high, outline almost straight. Larval shell multispiral, maximum diameter 0.8-0.9 mm. First 5-7 postnuclear whorls with many small tubercles, following whorls undulate. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat, with 0 increasing to 2 broad spiral grooves and arcuate radial threads, leaving a strongly granulose subsutural ridge and 2 less granulose spiral ribs, below centre and at outer margin. Last whorl heavily sculptured with about 20 prominent smooth or granulose spiral ribs and axially striate wide grooves between.
Ground colour white to light brown, Last whorl with darker brown lines on ribs. Larval whorls white. Postnuclear sutural ramps with irregular brown radial markings. Aperture white or pale brown.
Shell Morphometry
L 29-38 mm
RW 0.07-0.11 g/mm
RD 0.59-0.63
PMD 0.75-0.81
RSH 0.25-0.29
Discussion:-C. coromandelicus is the only recent species placed in the genus Conorbis. We include this genus in the Conidae, because partial resorbtion of inner walls, a hallmark of Conus, also occurs in Conorbis.

 

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Conus  coronatus  Gmelin, 1791

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Neotype in NHMUK Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Living Animal: David Massemin  New Caledonia

 

Published in: Syst. Nat. 13th ed. Vol. 1, pt,  p. 3389
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Australia (based on neotype)
Type Data: Neotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 27 x 15 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Miliariconus Species:-coronatus
Synonyms:-
coronalis Röding, 1798; parvus Gebauer, J. J., 1802; aristophanes Sowerby ii, 1857; condoriana Crosse & Fischer, 1864
Geographic Range:-Entire Indo-Pacific
Habitat:-Intertidal Reefs to 10m in areas of sand
Description:-Small to medium-sized, moderately light to solid. Last whorl usually broadly to broadly ventricosely conical or even ovate; outline faintly to pronouncedly convex; left side straight to concave at base. Aperture variably wider at base than at shoulder. Shoulder subangulate to angulate, tuberculate. Spire of low to moderate height, outline concave to convex. Larval shell multispiral. Postnuclear spire whorls tuberculate to strongly tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat to concave, with 1-7 spiral grooves in later whorls; last ramp may have additional spiral striae. Last whorl variable in surface sculpture; largely smooth shells with well separated faint spiral ribs at base grade into shells with distinct granulose ribs from base to adapical third.
Ground colour pale grey, pale beige to pink or pale purple; often with several shades merging together. Last whorl with pale, occasionally obsolete spiral bands below shoulder and centre. Variously sized markings of brown, black or olive, spirally aligned on either side of subcentral band, either separate or fusing into 2 solid colour bands. Variably spaced spiral rows of alternating white and dark dots or dashes from base to shoulder; occasionally, with additional diagonal or zigzag-shaped opaque white markings. Larval whorls grey or light violet to red. Teleoconch spire radially maculated with varying brown to black blotches or bundles of fine lines. Aperture bluish to brownish grey, with pale bands below shoulder and centre.
Shell Morphometry
L 20-47 mm
RW 0.08-0.45 g/mm
RD 0.68-0.84
PMD 0.69-0.89
RSH 0.10-0.23
Discussion:-C. coronatus resembles the typical form of C. m. miliaris in shell characters and often also in the colouration of the animal. Typical C. m. miliaris can be distinguished by its generally less ventricose last whorl, consistently angulate shoulder with generally more prominent tubercules and in the presence of a central pad as well as an abapical ridge within the aperture. C. miliaris lacks the variously sized brown or olive markings on the last whorl, the spiral rows of dots and dashes finer, and white instead of dark markings are the dominant pattern element. In addition, the aperture of C. m. miliaris is paler brownish, pinkish and violet, rather than blue, grey and darker brown). Where both species occur sympatrically, differences can usually be observed in the distribution pattern across the habitat, the diet composition and the microhabitats chosen. Some specimens of C. coronatus are similar to C. abbreviatus in shell shape and colouration but differ in the colour of animals and apertures (bluesh to brownish grey vs. brownish violet); the intermittent white markings are absent from the dotted spiral lines on the last whorl of C. abbreviatus. In Tahiti, Fiji and Philippines, typical C. coronatus and a form corresponding with C. aristophanes as redescribed by Cernohorsky (1964), differ in a number of shell caracters as well as in habitat. Form aristophanes has a narrower, less ventricose last whorl with a straighter outline, and fewer spiral grooves on the later sutural ramps. It more often has a bluish or greyish last whorl with more pronounced pale spiral bands. In other regions (e.g. Solomon Is., Japan, Maldives, Oman and Zanzibar), the two forms intergrade. In the type locality of C. aristophanes, Philippines Is., they are separable. Based on data from such areas, Cernohorsky (1964) and Lewis (1979) considered C. aristophanes a valid species. However, data from the entire range favour ranking C. aristophanes as as a form of C. coronatus. Coomans et al. (1981) reached the same conclusion.

 

 

Conus  coronatus  f.  aristophanes  Sowerby ii,  1857

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Lectotype in NHMUK Mike Filmer

Published in: Thes. Conch. Iii,  p. 9, pl. 4 (190),  f. 81 &  82
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Philippines and Sandwich Is.
Type Data: Lectotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 35 x 23 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus coronatus Gmelin, 1791
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Miliariconus Species:-coronatus aristophanes forma
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Tahiti, Fiji and Philippines
Habitat:-Intertidal to 10m in sand.
Description:-Source Living Conidae    C. coronatus

Form aristophanes has a narrower, less ventricose last whorl with a straighter outline, and fewer spiral grooves on the later sutural ramps. It more often has a bluish or greyish last whorl with more pronounced pale spiral bands.
Discussion:-No Data

 

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Conus cossignanii  Cossignani & Fiadeiro, 2014

 

Pictures:.
Picture Link: Holotype in MMM, Cupra Marittima
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

 

Published in: Malacologia 83, p. 18 -19
Ocean geography: East Atlantic and West Africa
Type Locality:
Praia Real, Maio, Cape Verde
Type Data: Holotype in MMM deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 28.5 x 14.6 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: According to Tenorio a synonym of Conus crioulus Tenorio & Afonso, 2004
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Africonus Species:-cossignanii
Synonyms:-
Conus crioulus Tenorio & Afonso, 2004
Geographic Range:-Cape Verde
Habitat:-
the specimens studied were found to be 0.5 to 5 meters deep, over and under rock
Description:-
Shell of medium size ( 25 to 31 mm) with pear-shaped profile; moderately high spire, almost smooth, with visible sutures, slightly concave, crossed by two small grooves spirally; the coloring of the spire comprises white maculations alternating with darker greenish-brown speckles. The protoconch is small and domed.

The aperture is wide with internal blue colour becoming brownish near the lip edge. The aperture is almost aligned.
Discussion:-

Abalde et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology (2017) 17:231

Phylogenetic relationships of cone shells endemic to Cabo Verde based on mitochondrial genomes

New species proposed:  Africonus maoensis Trováo, Roán & Felix-Alves, 1990

 

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Conus  couderti  Bernardi, 1860

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Figure J. Conch 1860,  pl. iv,  f. 3 & 4

 

Published in: J. Conchyl. Viii,  p. 212,  pl. iv,  f. 3 & 4.
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Not known
Type Data: Holotype was in collection Coudert and currently assumed to be lost
Type Size: 2 5x 14 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus erythraeensis Reeve, 1843
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Asprella Species:-erythraeensis couderti forma
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Arabian coast from Jeddah to N. Yemen
Habitat:-Shallow water, to about 15 m. Shells from the Arabian coast from Jeddah to N. Yemen in very quiet shallow lagoons, in sand and amongst eel-grass roots.
Description:-
C. couderti has two spiral irregular wide bands of brown on white/fawn with rows of darks dashes.
Discussion:-Shell from the Caribbean are usually erroneously offered as C. couderti.

 

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Conus  coxeni  Brazier, 1875

 

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Published in: Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1875,  p. 34,  pl. iv,  f. 10
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Moreton Bay, Queensland
Type Data: Holotype was in Coxen collection and currently assumed to be lost
Type Size: 32 x 15 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym of Conus cyanostoma A. Adams, 1853
Current Group Names:-
Not appropriate for the name coxeni

 

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Conus  crabosi Petuch & Berschauer, 2018

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in MZSP  D. Berschauer

 

Published in: Festivus Vol.: 50, p. 23-24; Figures 4, 12 E, F
Ocean geography: Western Atlantic

Type Locality: Found dead on sand flats off the shoreline of Boipeba Island, Bahia State, Brazil
Type Data: Holotype in MZSP deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 20.6 x 11.4 mm
Nomenclature: An Available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONILITHIDAE SubFamily: -CONILITHINAE
Genus:-Jaspidiconus Species:-crabosi
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:- At present, known only from the coastal areas of Boipeba Island, south of Todos os Santos Bay, Bahia State, Brazil

Habitat:- The new species is most probably an inhabitant of open clean sand sea floors, in intertidal depths
Description:-Source Original Description

Shell of average size for genus, subcylindrical, broad across shoulder; spire proportionally high, pyramidal, distinctly scalariform; shoulder sharply angled, edged with thin, blade-like carina; spire whorls slightly indented and canaliculated; body whorl polished and shiny, sculptured with 2 types of ornamentation; posterior half of body whorl sculptured with 6 large, evenly-spaced spiral cords that are ornamented with large bead-like pustules; anterior half of body whorl sculptured with 12 smaller, flatter, and smoother spiral cords that lack large pustules; shell color uniform pale violet purple overlaid with widely scattered small, thin brown longitudinal flammules and small brown spots; edge of shoulder carina marked with row of tiny, widely-spaced brown dots; spire whorls paler whitish-lavender in color; aperture proportionally narrow, widening toward anterior end; aperture white, becoming pale purple within interior.

 

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Conus  crassus Sowerby ii, 1858

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Lectotype in NHMUK Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

 

Published in: Thes. Conch. iii,  p. 25, pl. 12 (198),  f. 254-5
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Fiji. Lectotype (Walls) in BMNH
Type Data: Lectotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 44 x 28 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus eburneus Hwass in Bruguiere, 1792
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Lithoconus Species:-eburneus crassus forma
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Fiji, New Britain
Habitat:-Intertidal to about 65 m, mostly in 1-25 m. C. eburneus lives primarly in and on sand bottoms of subtidal reef flats, in sand-filled channels, large patches of sand and among weed on sandy or muddy substrate.
Description:-Source Living Conidae  C. eburneus
C. e. crassus: Sides strongly convex below shoulder then concave; producing pyriform outline; spire higher and conical; spiral ridges developed; often has bright reddish brown or orange spots; black spots also found; Fiji to New Britain; uncommon

Discussion:-No Data

 

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Conus  crioulus  Tenorio,  M. J. and  Afonso,  M. L.,  2004

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in MNCM Manolo Tenorio

Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Radula Picture: Manuel Tenorio & Emilio Rolán

 

Published in: Visaya 2,  p. 30
Ocean geography: East Atlantic and West Africa
Type Locality: Praia Real, North coast of Maio Island, Cape Verde Is.
Type Data: Holotype in MNCM deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 19 x 10 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Africonus Species:-crioulus
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Cape Verde Islands
Habitat:-No Data
Description:-Source Original description
The shell has a greenish-brown color with fine equally spaced spiral lines of a darker brown color, interrupted by white dashes and irregular bluish white flecks, tent-shaped in occasions.
The white flecks and dashes coalesce forming a more dense bluish white spiral band around the middle portion of the last whorl or slightly below. The shoulder and the spire are white, overlaid with greenish-brown blotches often by coalescing fine axial irregular hairlines. Some times, the spire pattern is reduced to comma- shaped flecks, or alternatively the greenish- brown fine axial hairlines may cover most of the spire. The area around the base is usua1ly of a darker brown, covered by a pattern of bluish white markings in more or less extent. The aperture is purplish, with two white bands, one in the middle portion and another one in the upper part. The edge of the inner lip shows elements of the external pattern by transparence. The inner part of the aperture is bluish, and the columella purple.
Discussion:-

Abalde et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology (2017) 17:231

Phylogenetic relationships of cone shells endemic to Cabo Verde based on mitochondrial genomes

New species proposed:  Africonus maoensis Trováo, Roán & Felix-Alves, 1990

 

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Conus  cristinapessoae  Cossignani & Fiadeiro, 2017

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in MMM Cupra Marittima
Picture Link: Paul Kersten Paratype 2

 

Published in: Malacologia 94, p. 27 - 2
Ocean geography: East Atlantic and West Africa
Type Locality:
Varandinha, Boa Vista, Cape Verde
Type Data: Holotype in MMM, Cupra Marittima
Type Size: 24.5x 15 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Uncertain
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Africonus Species:-cristinapessoae
Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:- Only known from the type locality
Habitat:- R
etrieved between 0.5 m and 5 m deep under rocks and in the holes of the rock
Description:-Source: Original description Malacologia
Shell subtriangular, medium sized for the genus, with a range from 19 to 27 mm in height, protoconch raised and dome-shaped; low spire, with sutures slightly stepped and weakly concave ramps. The aperture is wide with yellow internally and along edge of lip with, two spirals bands of a dark reddish-brown, The shell has a yellow-tan color with many lines and bands of darker spirals  the most obvious ones adapically; an infinity of sagittal lines more dark give a sense of movement; some spiral grooves starting from the distal band are found on the columellar part of the shell which is dark coloured. Siphonal canal well aligned and open. Animal not analysed.

Discussion:-

 

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Conus  crocatus  Lamarck,  1810

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in MHNG Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

 

Published in: Ann. du Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) xv,  p. 424
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Mers des Grandes Indes
Type Data: Holotype in MHNG deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 40 x 20 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Darioconus Species:-crocatus
Synonyms:-
thailandis da Motta, 1978; magister Doiteau, 1981
Geographic Range:-Pacific Ocean: Japan to Marshall Is., Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Is., Queensland, and New Caledonia; Indian Ocean: W. Thailand, Seychelles, Madagascar, Mozambique, and Mascarenes
Habitat:-In 1-80 m; on coral reef, from lagoon pinnacles to the outer slope of the reef, in sand, muddy sand and coral rubble
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Medium-sized to large, moderately solid to heavy; typical form to moderately large and solid, form magister larger than other forms. Last whorl conoid-cylindrical to conical or ventricosely conical in typical form, conical in form magister, and conical or ventricosely conical to broadly conical or broadly and ventricosely conical in form thailandis; outline convex at adapical fourth to third, straight below. Shoulder rounded to subangulate, to angulate in form thailandis. Spire of low to moderate height, usually low in form magister; outline straight in typical form, concave in other forms. Larval shell of about 3 whorls, maximum diameter about 0.8 mm. First 1-2 postnuclear whorls weakly tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps slightly concave to convex, with 1-2 spiral grooves in earliest whorls increasing to numerous weak spiral striae in following whorls. Last whorl with closely spaced fine spiral ribs basally.
Colour yellowish to orangish or reddish brown, with sparse to numerous white tents and flecks on last whorl and teleoconch spire; white markings evenly distributed or concentrated in spiral bands, sometimes fused into large blotches and flames. Last whorl with very fine, variably spaced, prominent to obsolete, darker brown spiral lines, sometimes articulated with very small white markings. Base dark violet-brown. Apex pinkish white to pinkish orange. Aperture white.
Shell Morphometry
L -
(-typical form 40-82 mm; -form thailandis 50-84 mm; -form magister 70-110 mm)
RW -
(-typical form 0.15-0.45 g/mm, L 40-64 mm; -form thailandis 0.44-1.12 g/mm, L 50-84 mm)
RD -
(-typical form 0.51-0.64; -form thailandis 0.56-0.72; -form magister 0.55-0.64)
PMD 0.81-0.91
RSH 0.07-0.12
Discussion:-C. lamberti is similar to C. crocatus form magister; The conchological differences between typical C. crocatus and C. thailandis do not justify separation at the species level. Subadult shells of the latter may nearly match typical C. crocatus in shape, and intermediate specimens are known from New Britain, Solomon Is., Réunion, Seychelles, Madagascar, and St. Brandon. RKK therefore consider C. thailandis to represent the local form of C. crocatus from the W. Thailand area. Specimens described as C. magister correspond closely to typical C. crocatus in the colour pattern of the animal and to form thailandis in shell characters. RKK consider C. magister to represent a large local form of C. crocatus from the Nouméa area, New Caledonia.

 

 

Conus crocatus f.  magister  Doiteau, 1981

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Lectotype in MNHN Bill Fenzan

 

Published in: Rossiniana no. xiii,  p. 3
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: New Caledonia; 20 m on muddy bottom.
Type Data: Lectotype in MNHN deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 97 x 51 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus crocatus Lamarck, 1810
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Darioconus Species:-crocatus magister forma
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Noumea, New Caledonia
Habitat:-Reported from from about 20 m.
Description:-Source Living Conidae   C. crocatus
Shell Morphometry
L -
(-form magister 70-110 mm)
RW –

RD -
(-form magister 0.55-0.64)
Discussion:-RKK consider C. magister to represent a large local form of C. crocatus from the Noumea area, New Caledonia.

 

 

Conus crocatus thailandis da Motta, 1978

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in MHNG Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Radula Picture: Manuel Tenorio

 

Published in: Natural Study (Thai). 2, no. 1,  seq. 7,  p. 7, figs.
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Off Raya Is., Phuket, Thailand; 80-120 ft
Type Data: Holotype in MHNG deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 68 x 41 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Subspecies of Conus crocatus Lamarck, 1810
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Darioconus Species:-crocatus thailandis subsp.
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Andaman Sea; Thailand; Vietnam
Habitat:-Reported from 20-40 m.
Description:-Source Living Conidae   C. crocatus
Shell Morphometry
L -
(-form thailandis 50-84 mm)
RW -
(-form thailandis 0.44-1.12 g/mm, L 50-84 mm)
RD -
(-form thailandis 0.56-0.72)
Discussion:-The conchological differences between typical C. crocatus and C. thailandis do not justify separation at the species level. Subadult shells of the latter may nearly match typical C. crocatus in shape, and intermediate specimens are known from New Britain, Solomon Is., Réunion, Seychelles, Madagascar, and St. Brandon. RKK therefore consider C. thailandis to represent the local form of C. crocatus from the W. Thailand area.

 

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Conus crosnieri   Tenorio, Monnier & Puillandre, 2018

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in MNHN Manuel Tenorio

 

Published in: European Journal of Taxonomy xxx: 1–xx; Fig. 4 & 5
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality:
Mozambique Channel, S of Grande Comore
Type Data: Holotype in MNHN deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 59.6 x 24.8 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Asprella Species:- crosnieri
Synonyms:-

Geographic Range:-
Known from the Mozambique Channel including the Comoros, Iles Glorieuses, southern Mozambique, South Africa (Kwazulu-Natal coast) and NW Madagascar. Also present in Réunion Island.
Habitat:-
between 180 and 314 m depth
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Moderately large. Maximum length: 83.8 mm. Shell profile narrowly conical, with convex sides adapically, and straight below. Spire of moderate height, of straight or very slightly convex outline. Multispiral protoconch with about three whorls, yellowish, glossy and translucent. First four teleoconch whorls weakly tuberculated, with tubercles becoming obsolete on fifth whorl, being absent in later whorls. Occasionally, the tubercles may fuse together forming a ridge over the suture, producing a spire with a slightly stepped aspect. Sutural ramp flat or slightly concave, with five increasing to eight spiral cords. Shoulder subangulate to rounded.

Teleoconch. Early teleoconch whorls white or yellowish. Late teleoconch whorls white with light brown irregular blotches and flecks. Ground colour white, pale yellow or pale violet. Last whorl overlaid with brown flammules or blotches, often fused forming spiral bands. There are two broad white, sparsely patterned spiral bands immediately above and below mid-body. Basal quarter and shoulder area also predominantly white and sparsely patterned. In addition, reddish-brown fine interrupted spiral lines and dots present in variable amounts, more evident in sparsely patterned areas. Columella white, callous and twisted. Aperture white or pale purplish, rather narrow adapically, widening abapically. Posterior notch rather deep. Periostracum yellow-brown, thin and translucent, with fine spiral rows of small tufts. Small and ovate operculum present.

Discussion:-

 

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Conus  crosseanus  Bernardi,  1861

 

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Picture Link: Lectotype in NHMUK Mike Filmer
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Picture Link: Paul Kersten   “lineata”

 

Published in: J. Conchyl. 9, p. 168,  pl. 6,  f. 5 &  6
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: New Caledonia
Type Data: Lectotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 66.8 x 39.4 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of  Conus marmoreus Linnaeus, 1758
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Conus Species:-marmoreus crosseanus forma
Synonyms:-
lineata Crosse, 1878
Geographic Range:-New Caledonia
Habitat:-In 1-15 m. On coral reef platforms and lagoon pinnacles, on coral debris and in sand often under rocks or among weed.
Description:-Source Living Conidae   C. marmoreu
Shell Morphometry
(form crosseanus 0.60 - 0.67)
PMD 0.85-0.94
RSH 0.05-0.15
Discussion:-No Data

 

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Conus  crotchii  Reeve, 1849

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Radula picture: Manuel Tenorio & Emilio Rolán

 

Published in: Conch. Icon. I,  Conus,  Suppl. pl. vi,  sp. 254
Ocean geography: East Atlantic and West Africa
Type Locality: Saldanha Bay (erroneus). Santa Monica, Boavista, Cape Verde Islands
Type Data: Holotype was in collection Cuming and currently assumed to be lost
Type Size: 29 x 17 mm figure
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Africonus Species:-crotchii
Synonyms:-
cabraloi  Cossignani, 2014; condei  Tenorio & Afonso, 2014; docensis  Cossignani & Fiadeiro, 2014; evorai  Monteiro, Fernandes & Rolán, 1995; fiadeiroi Tenório, Afonso, Cunha & Rolán; irregularis Sowerby ii, 1858; salreiensis  Rolán, 1980; poppei Elsen, 1983; teodorae Rolán & Fernandes, 1990; see Discussion.
Geographic Range:-Boavista, Cape Verde Islands
Habitat:-Found under or among rocks, on a rocky bottom
Description:-Source Röckel & Rolán,  2000
This species has a relatively large shell (adult specimens reaching about 40 mm in total length). The shell is heavy, with slightly convex sides and a short spire, each whorl presenting a rounded convex profile. It has a greenish ground colour, occasionally very light green or even yellowish, sometimes almost black, constantly marked with fine spiral dark brown lines, particularly strong at about mid-body; it usually presents several small or large white blotches, especially interrupting the central accumulation of brown lines. The body whorl is covered with extremely fine axial growth striae that continue on the spire whorls. The suture is well marked and the spire is greenish, occasionally marked with white blotches and presenting very weak spiral grooves.The aperture is bluish, with a very dark narrow zone near the lip, which is thick and straight.
The specimens taken in Gatas Bay were generally larger and darker, presenting less and larger white blotches on the shell.
Discussion:-

Abalde et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology (2017) 17:231

Phylogenetic relationships of cone shells endemic to Cabo Verde based on mitochondrial genomes

 

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Conus  culebranus   Petuch, Berschauer & Poremski, 2016

 

Pictures:

Picture Link: Holotype in LACM

 

Published in: The Festivus, Vol. 48; p. 174 – 175; fig. 1: C & D

Ocean geography: Western Atlantic 

Type Locality: offshore of the municipal landfill, Culebra Island, northern Caribbean Sea

Type Data: Holotype in LACM deposited and catalogued

Type Size: 17.7 mm

Nomenclature: An available name

Taxonomy: A valid species

Current Group Names:-

Family:-CONILITHIDAE SubFamily: -CONILITHINAE

Genus:-Jaspidiconus Species:-culebranus

Synonyms:- There are no junior synonyms

Geographic Range:- At present, known only from Culebra Island off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico. The species is apparently endemic to Culebra

Habitat:- at 4 m depth, within pockets of clean sand among Turtle Grass (Thalassia testudinum) beds

Description:-Source Original description

Shell of average size for genus, elongately fusiform, biconic, with slightly rounded sides; shoulder sharply-angled, subcarinated; spire high and protracted, slightly stepped, pyramidal; body whorl smooth and shiny, ornamented with 12-15 evenly-spaced incised spiral sulci, which become stronger and more closely-packed toward anterior end; entire shell uniform pale cream-white or whitishorange, becoming darker on spire whorls; aperture proportionally wide, pale yellow-cream within interior; protoconch proportionally large, rounded, composed of 2 ˝ whorls, pale cream orange in color; periostracum thin, smooth, transparent yellow.

Discussion:-

 

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Conus  cumingii  Reeve, 1848

 

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Published in: Conch. Icon, I,  Conus, Suppl. pl. iii, sp. 282
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Mindanao, Philippines
Type Data: Holotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 34.3 x 17.2 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Rhizoconus Species:-cumingii
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-N. Indian Ocean (India, Sri Lanka. W. Thailand. Indonesia) and W. Pacific (S. Philippines to Solomon Is.)
Habitat:-In 2-50 m, in dark silty sand
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Moderately small to medium-sized, moderately light to moderately solid. Last whorl ventricosely conical to conical; outline variably convex. Shoulder subangulate. Spire of moderate height: outline straight to slightly concave. Larval shell of about 3.25 whorls, maximum diameter 0.8-0.9 mm. First 2-4 teleoconch whorls tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat. with 1 increasing to 6-9 spiral grooves. Last whorl with often granulose spiral ribs near base.
Ground colour white. Last whorl overlaid with broad olive. orange or dark brown spiral bands, leaving only a white central band and a spiral row of white blotches at the shoulder; central band edged by dark brown dotted and dashed spiral lines. Last whorl variably encircled with darker spiral lines or spiral rows of dots and dashes. Larval shell pink. Postnuclear sutural ramps with brown radial streaks and blotches. Aperture bluish white to light violet.
Shell Morphometry
L 30-40 mm
RW 0.13-0.19 g/mm
(L 30-37 mm)
RD 0.60-0.70
PMD 0.79-0.89
RSH 0.10-0.17
Discussion:-

 

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Conus  cuna  Petuch,  1998

 

Pictures:
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Published in: La Conchiglia xxx,  no. 287,  p. 30, figs. 9 &.10
Ocean geography: West Atlantic and Caribbean
Type Locality: Moro Tupo Is., San Blas Is., Panama; 3m
Type Data: Holotype in FMNH deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 20 x 10 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Gladioconus Species:-cuna
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Panama (E)
Habitat:-In sand under coral slab at 3 m
Description:-Source Original description
Shell small for genus, elongated, with high spire; shell surface highly sculptured with large, very numerous, closely packed spiral threads, giving shell rough texture; shoulder angled; spire whorls ornamented with 4 spiral cords; protoconch exserted, mammillate; shell color pinkish-brown with scattered large, irregular blue patches; mid-body with large, wide pale blue band; mid-body band sometimes overlaid with irregular small, dark brown flammules and patches; some specimens uniformly deep blue color, without brown patches; protoconch and early whorls bright salmon-orange; interior of aperture purplish-brown with wide white band.
Discussion:-Conus cuna is superficially similar to the common and widespread Conus mus Hwass, 1792, but differs in being a more slender and elongated shell with a higher spire, and in having bright salmon-orange early whorls and protoconch.

 

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Conus  cuneiformis  Smith, 1877

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Lectotype in NHMUK Mike Filmer

Published in: J. Conchol. I,  p. 202,  text-fig.
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Not known
Type Data: Lectotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 25.2 x 14.1 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym form of Conus inscriptus Reeve, 1843
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Asprella Species:-inscriptus cuneiformis forma
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-India
Habitat:-Found at depths of 10-80 m
Description:-
Almost completely white shells of C. inscriptus from India were described as C. cuneiformis.
Discussion:-No Data

 

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Conus  cuneolus  Reeve,  1843

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Lectotype in NHMUK Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Radula Picture: Manuel Tenorio & Emilio Rolán

 

Published in: Conch. Icon.. I,  Conus,  pl. 37, sp. 205
Ocean geography: East Atlantic and West Africa
Type Locality: Sal Island, Cape Verde Islands
Type Data: Lectotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 33.1 x 20.6 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Africonus Species:-cuneolus
Synonyms:- bernardinoi Cossignani, 2014; fontonae Rolán & Trovăo, 1990; mordeirae Rolán & Trovăo, 1990; pseudocuneolus Röckel, Rolán & Monteiro, 1980; serranegrae Rolán, 1990; see Discussion

Geographic Range:-Cape Verde
Habitat:-Shallow Water
Description:-Source Walls
Moderately heavy with a good gloss;obconic,the sides nearly straight,parallel below shoulder;body whorl with basal striae otherwise smooth except for weak axial and spiral threads;shoulder broad,strongly angled,concave above;spire low,slightly stepped;body whorl whitish heavily covered with 3-4 bands of deep brown/blackish brown ,broad band at base;bands crossed by irregular bands and flammules to produce cross hatch pattern;the white background may shoow through as squarish spots near midbody or as fine zigzag marks over shell;base all brown;shoulder marked with brown white axial lines as is spire;tip pale violet;aperture narrow widening anteriorly;outer lip thin sharp,straight;mouth whitish with pink violet tones;columella short sometimes bounded by ridge;
Discussion:-No Data

Abalde et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology (2017) 17:231

Phylogenetic relationships of cone shells endemic to Cabo Verde based on mitochondrial genomes

 

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Conus  curassaviensis  Hwass in Bruguiere,  1792

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Representation of Lectotype Tableau (1798,  pl. 316, fig. 4)

Picture Link: Paul kersten

 

Published in: Encyc. Meth. Hist. Nat. des Vers. Vol. 1,  p. 602
Ocean geography: West Atlantic and Caribbean
Type Locality: Aruba; Island of Curaçao, (erroneous), corrected (Vink & von Cosel) Aruba, (Netherlands Antilles).
Type Data: A representative type figure has been recorded as: Tableau (1798: pl. 316, fig. 4)
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Tenorioconus Species:-curassaviensis
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Aruba Dutch Antilles
Habitat:-Found at shallow depths of 2-5 m
Description:-Source Vink
A relatively fat shell, 40 to 50 mm., with moderately elevated to high, slightly concave- sided spire. Body whorl convex- sided, early whorls tuberculated, later whorls smooth and often somewhat canaliculate. Surface with weak spiral threads near the base, but not granulated, except in small juvenile specimens. 'Internal restriction' within the aperture weak to very weak. Animal bright red, operculum small but somewhat longish, about 1/6 ofaperture height. Radular tooth described and pic- tured by Vink & Cosel. Periostracum thin, yellowish. Colour white with maculations or isolated patches of yellowish brown, orange, reddish brown or black. Background not always evenly white, but showing pale bluish and pinkish hues causing the dark areas to be often not well delimited. In addition spiral rows of white and brown dots and dashes placed close together.
Discussion:-C. curassaviensis could be confused with C. mappa (which is larger with a more straight-sided body whorl, more canaliculate spire whorls and a more developed  'internal restriction' within the aperture), with C. aurantius (which is more slender with a tuberculated shoulder of the body whorl) and with C. pseudaurantius (which has a lower spire and a tuberculated shoulder of the body whorl).

 

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Conus  curralensis  Rolan, 1986

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in MNCM Manolo Tenorio
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Radula Picture: Manuel Tenorio & Emilio Rolán

 

Published in: Publ. Ocas. Soc. Port. Malac. no. 6,  p. 10, f. 1B
Ocean geography:East Atlantic and West Africa
Type Locality: Curral, Santa Luzia; 1-3 m
Type Data: Holotype in MNCM deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 20.7 x 12.3 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Africonus Species:-curralensis
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Santa Luzia, Cape Verde Islands
Habitat:-Found at depths around 2m among rocks
Description:-Source Original description translation
The seashell is obconical with slightly raised spire, barely stepped. Its color is always a little gaudy, oscillating among cream, yellow, siena, light green olive and intermediate tones. The pattern consists of white areas, mostly in form of zig-zag or of oblique lines, that dominate in a band situated a little under the middle of the last whorl, in the shoulder and, frequently, in another narrow band between them. Spire also has white areas alternating with the darker color of the background. Frequently can be appreciated a narrow band, yellowish and in general lighter, under the shoulder, visible by transparency. Some specimens have very numerous white areas and in other, reduced smaller marks that give it a reticulate aspect. Spiral lines of color never seen. There are some prominent little grooves in the base. There is not sexual dimorphism. The interior is whitish, revealing near the mouth a somewhat brownish color, interrupted by two lighter lines. The nucleus of the protoconch is white, although it is only possible to observe it in the juvenile specimens. The operculum is small and oval, extended frequently. The periostracum is fine, somewhat transparent, matt, and not rough. The animal is of reddish color to maroon with visible gray zones with magnification.
Discussion:-Although included in C. decoratus Röckel, Rolán and Monteiro, 1980 by its pattern, it is evident that by its pattern, its silhouette and its radula, there would be more similarity to C. cuneolus Reeve, 1844.

 

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Conus  cuvieri  Crosse, 1858

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Lectotype in IRSN Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Picture Link: Paul Kersten

 

Published in: Rev. Mag. Zool. 2, p. 123
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Swan River, Australia (erroneus) corrected to Djibouti.(C. cervus Sowerby, 1838)
Type Data: Lectotype in IRSN deposited and catalogued (C.deshayesii)
Type Size:51.2 x 27.4mm
Nomenclature: an available name, a new replacement name (nomen novum) for C. deshayesii Reeve 1843
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Gastridium Species:-cuvieri
Synonyms:-
deshayesii Reeve, 1843
Geographic Range:-S. Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
Habitat:-In shallow calm water amongst fine rubble
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Moderately small to medium-sized, moderately light. Last whorl ovate to ventricosely conical, outline convex; left side straight or slightly concave toward base. Aperture broad at base. Shoulder angulate. Spire usually low; outline concave, often with apex projecting from an otherwise almost flat spire. Larval shell of 2-2.25 whorls, maximum diameter about 1 mm. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat to slightly concave, with 0-1 increasing to 5-6 weak spiral grooves. Last whorl with weak spiral ribs at base.
Ground colour pale grey. Last whorl with olive to brown axial lines, streaks and blotches, often fusing into a broad interrupted or continuous spiral band on each side of centre. Numerous closely spaced spiral rows of irregularly alternating brown and white dots and dashes extend from base to shoulder. Larval whorls and adjacent 2.5 postnuclear sutural ramps dark brown. Later sutural ramps with light to blackish brown radial streaks. Aperture translucent.
Shell Morphometry
L 32-49 mm
RW 0.06-0.09 g/mm
(L 32-44 mm)
RD 0.57-0.66
PMD 0.68-0.77
RSH 0.07-0.13
Discussion:-C. cuvieri differs from C. fragilissimus and C. obscurus by its broader last whorl (RD 0.57-0.66) and by the absence of shoulder tubercles from its early and later postnuclear whorls. The sympatric C. fragilissimus has a primarily reticulate pattern, while C. obscurus has a generally higher spire with a rather straight outline (RSH 0.11-0.16) and a cylindrical rather than ovate last whorl.

 

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Conus  cuyoensis  Lorenz  &  Barbier,  2012

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in MNHN Original Description

Picture Link: Paul kersten

Picture Link: Paul Kersten   White specimen

 

Published in: Acta Conch. 11, 3,  pls 1 & 2
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: Cuyo, Philippines
Type Data: Holotype in MNHN deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 29.3mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: Synonym colour form of Conus vidua Reeve, 1843
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Conus Species:-vidua cuyoensis forma
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Palawan, Philippines
Habitat:-Shallow, subtidal to 90 m, mostly encountered in 5-20 m
Description:-Source Original description
Small to medium sized, broadly conical, solid and heavy. Last whorl slightly ventricose, rather dull, the anterior half with densely spaced nodulose spirals. Orange colored.
Discussion:-The authors raised Conus vidua to the status of a valid species and described these orange shells as a subspecies of Conus vidua.

 

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Conus  cyanostoma  A. Adams, 1853

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in NHMUK Mike Filmer
Picture Link: Paul Kersten

Radula Picture: Manuel Tenorio

 

Published in: Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1854,  p. 116
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: West Africa (Cuming) erroneous, corrected to Keppel Bay, Queensland, Australia
Type Data: Holotype in NHMUK deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 27 x 15.2 mm
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Austroconus  Species:-cyanostoma
Synonyms:-
coxeni Brazier, 1875; innotabilis Smith, 1892
Geographic Range:-Queensland - N New South Wales
Habitat:-Typical form in shallow water to about 55 m; form innotabilis in 40-150 m
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Small to moderately small, light to moderately solid. Last whorl conical or ventricosely conical to broadly conical or broadly and ventricosely conical; outline convex adapically, less so below; left side slightly concave near base. Shoulder angulate, sometimes subangulate. Spire usually of moderate height, outline concave to slightly sigmoid. Larval shell of 1.75-2 whorls; maximum diameter 0.7-0.8 mm in typical form, 0.8-1.1 mm in form innotabilis. First 3-4 postnuclear whorls smooth to very weakly tuberculate in typical form, weakly to distinctly tuberculate in form innotabilis. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat, with 0-1 increasing to 3-5 spiral grooves. Last whorl with variably spaced, axially striate spiral grooves on basal third to two-thirds and with 2-3 additional grooves just below shoulder; intervening ribbons narrow toward base and at shoulder. In form innotabilis, entire last whorl with strong spiral grooves.
Ground colour light bluish-grey in typical form, white to pinkish violet in form innotabilis. In typical form, last whorl without pattern or with orangish brown to brown spots and flecks forming spiral bands below shoulder, above centre and often within basal third. Spiral rows of alternating brown dots and pale grey dashes extend from base to shoulder, varying in number and prominence. Form innotabilis differs in the yellowish brown to orange colour of the pattern. Larval whorls white, sometimes grading to pale olive in typical form. Postnuclear sutural ramps with radial lines to blotches extending beyond outer margins and matching last whorl pattern in colour. In typical form, aperture violet, demarcated from the margin by a brown collabral band; form innotabilis with an orange aperture.
Shell Morphometry
L 17-32 mm
RW 0.04-0.15 g/mm
(L 17-27 mm)
RD 0.66-0.74
PMD 0.79-0.89
RSH 0.15-0.22
(- form innotabilis 0.12 - 0.26 )
C.  innotabilis 12 mm – 26 mm has strong spiral grooves on body whorl, white to pinkish violet and yellowish brown to orange in the pattern.
Discussion:-C. cyanostoma cannot be confused with adult specimens of any of its Indo-Pacific congeners. Erosion allows no data on the apices of the 2 syntypes of C. innotabilis they otherwise match the deeper-subtidal shells of C. cyanostoma. RKK therefore apply the form name innotabilis to these shells. C. coxeni is known only by the original figure showing a shell with a straight-sided high spire (RSH ca. 0.33) and a broad last whorl (RD ca. 0.78), strongly sculptured on its basal two-thirds. The figure does not match typical C. cyanostoma nor form innotabilis satisfactorily. RKK  provisionally assign C. coxeni to C. cyanostoma as a form or an aberrant specimen, although it might represent a separate species.

 

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Conus  cylindraceus  Broderip  &  Sowerby, 1830

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Representation of  Lectotype Broderip & Sowerby (1830,  Pl. 40,  fig. 5)

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Published in: Zool. Journ. 5,  f. 5,  Feb.
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: New Caledonia; Type locality not known, designated (C, M & W) New Caledonia
Type Data: A representative type figure has been recorded as: Broderip & Sowerby (1830, Pl. 40 fig. 5)
Nomenclature: An available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-PUNCTICULIINAE
Genus:-Leporiconus Species:-cylindraceus
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-Central Indian Ocean to French Polynesia and Hawaii.
Habitat:-In 1-25 m, in coral rubble and on sand under corals.
Description:-Source Living Conidae
Moderately small to medium-sized, light to moderately light. Last whorl narrowly ovate or ventricosely conical; outline convex. Shoulder indistinct. Spire high; outline convex. Larval shell of about 3.25 whorls, maximum diameter 0.7-0.8 mm. First 3-4 teleoconch whorls tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat to slightly convex, with 1 distinct spiral groove in early whorls and 2-6 very weak grooves in later whorls. Last whorl glossy, almost smooth or with weak, finely granulose spiral ribs at base.
Ground colour white. Last whorl with distinct, yellowish to dark brown axial flames, blotches and lines; one spiral ground colour band below shoulder and often another below centre, crossed by axial lines. Apex white. Later sutural ramps with brown radial blotches. Aperture white to bluish-white.
Shell Morphometry
L 25-49 mm
RW 0.04-0.05 g/mm
(L 24-40 mm)
RD 0.46-0.56
PMD 0.67-0.80
RSH 0.27-0.32
Discussion:-No Data

 

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Conus cymbioides  Monnier, Tenorio, Bouchet & Puillandre,  2018

 

Pictures:
Picture Link: Holotype in MNHN

 

Published in: Xenophora Taxonomy 19, p. 47-48, Pl. 12, figs.  1-9
Ocean geography: Indo-Pacific
Type Locality: South of Faux-Cap, South Madagascar, 282-333m
Type Data: Holotype in MNHN deposited and catalogued
Type Size: 23.3 x 9.3 mm
Nomenclature: An Available name
Taxonomy: A valid species
Current Group Names:-
Family:-CONIDAE SubFamily:-CONINAE
Genus:-Textilia Species:-cymbioides
Synonyms:-
There are no junior synonyms
Geographic Range:-S. Madagascar: from Sainte Luce in the north-east to Lavonono in the south-west
Habitat:-Found at depths from 25 to 307 m
Description:-Source Original description
Shell small to moderately small, with a characteristic narrowly conical outline. Broad protoconch, paucispiral of 1.5 to 2 whorls, smooth and bulbous, white to pink-coloured. Spire very low, with a concave profile. Teleoconch sutural ramp with about four spiral grooves and intervening ribs, with deep and narrow sutures between each whorl. Shoulder angulate. Shell very light in weight and fragile, elongated with a large samon pink- to orange-colored aperture, wider at base than near the shoulder. Surface of the last whorl variably sculptured, smooth in some specimens or with numerous (more than 50) very fine spiral ribbons. Background of the last whorl is pale cream colored, the pattern is composed of irregular and diffuse brown blotches, forming 2 or 3 spiral bands in some cases.
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