Conus litoglyphus

The size of an adult shell varies between 35 mm and 75 mm. The thick shell is small with a low spire. It has five rows of small granules at anterior end of whorl. It is dark brown or red in color with a mottled cream banding around the shoulders and across the body whorl. The narrow aperture is white with a brown coloration at the anterior end.

This is an Indo-Pacific species, found in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Chagos, the Mascarene Basin and Mauritius.

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  Conus litoglyphus Hwass in Bruguière, J.G., 1792
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  Conus litoglyphus Hwass in Bruguière, J.G., 1792
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  Conus litoglyphus Hwass in Bruguière, J.G., 1792
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  Conus litoglyphus Hwass in Bruguière, J.G., 1792

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