Sand-dusted Cone
Conus arenatus
Category: Sea Snails & Nudibranchs
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Conidae
- Genus
- Conus
Where to Find
Found in 54 diving areas across 31 countries and 6 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 13 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 13 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 11 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 21 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 2 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 12 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 3 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 3 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 3 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 4 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 10 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 9 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 2 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 2 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 3 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 8 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 4 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 3 records
- Baa Atoll, Maldives - 8 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 2 records
- North Malé Atoll, Maldives - 10 records
- Rasdhoo Atoll, Maldives - 8 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 2 records
- South Malé Atoll, Maldives - 8 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 14 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 3 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 1 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 19 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 1 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 3 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 2 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 6 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 16 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 5 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 1 records
- Marsa Alam, Egypt - 3 records
- Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea - 3 records
- Eilat, Israel - 1 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 1 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 3 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 2 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 6 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 2 records
- Siargao, Philippines - 2 records
- Subic Bay, Philippines - 9 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 14 records