Golden-Yellow Cone
Conus flavidus
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 47 diving areas across 31 countries and 6 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 15 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 15 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 20 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 26 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 17 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 5 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 8 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 5 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 4 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 5 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 20 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 32 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 5 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 4 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 8 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 7 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 1 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 11 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 2 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 6 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 8 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 3 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 2 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 7 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 16 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 1 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 2 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 22 records
- Marsa Alam, Egypt - 4 records
- Eilat, Israel - 2 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 3 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 2 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 9 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 1 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 12 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 1 records
- Hoi An & Cu Lao Cham, Vietnam - 1 records