Shells of South
East Queensland

Tweed Heads to Noosa
Conidae

Conus moreleti

Crosse, 1858
Shell solid, obconical; spire low and coronate; bay whorl straight and slightly constricted at anterior, weak spiral cords peasant at anterior end; aperture narrow._Colour: olive brown darker at anterior, spire and shoulder nodules white aperture violet, paler at centre and shoulder.


Specimens

Point Motumano,  Marquesas
Size: 50mm    Collected: 2000
amongst rocks and rubble at 5-10m collected October 2000

Point Motumano,  Marquesas
Size: 30mm    Collected: 2000
amongst rocks and rubble at 5-10m collected October 2000

Hutchinsons Shoal,  Australia
Size: 0mm    Collected: 1999
found on coral reef in some sand in 12m of water. two specimens.

The Gneerings off Mooloolabah,  Australia
Size: mm    Collected:
Collected by diver. Courtesy S Grail.