Shells of South
East Queensland

Tweed Heads to Noosa

Conidae

Conus litoglyphus

Hwass in Brugu’ere, 1792

Shell obconical, low spire, subungulate shoulder; body whorl straight sided; weakly granulose spiral cords present at anterior, aperture narrow._Colour: Êvariable from yellow brown through to almost black with two spiral bands of irregular white blotches at centre and the spire. Aperture white with violent to tan anteriorly.

Specimens

Hutchinsons Shoal, Australia
Size: 0mm Collected: 2004
found dead in sand on coral reef

Point Ututaotao, Marquesas
Size: 40mm Collected: 2000
Taken by diver under ledges and boulders at 10-35m collected November 2000

Batuata Island, Indonesia
Size: 60mm Collected: 2001
At night on sandy slope 9-30m collected by diver

grand Central Station, Solomon Islands
Size: 0mm Collected: 2000
found on coral rubble and sand in 5m of water on coral reef

General Store, Solomon Islands
Size: 0mm Collected: 2000
found dead in sand on coral reef

Naru wall, Solomon Islands
Size: 0mm Collected: 1998
found on coral rubble and sand in 5m of water on coral reef

Samar Island, Philippines
Size: 55mm Collected: Unknown
Collected by local fishermen.

Arlington Reef, Australia
Size: 50mm Collected: Unknown
No data.

Rabaul- Old, Papua New Guinea
Size: 55mm Collected: 1979
No data.

Honiara, solomon islands
Size: mm Collected: 1984
No data.

The Gneerings off Mooloolabah, Australia
Size: mm Collected: 2000
Collected by diver.