Marbled Cone
Conus marmoreus
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 36 diving areas across 21 countries and 6 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 2 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 9 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 39 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 3 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 3 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 3 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 3 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 8 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 9 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 15 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 4 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 10 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 7 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 18 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 6 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 6 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 2 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 4 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 1 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 1 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 5 records
- Marsa Alam, Egypt - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 1 records
- Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesia - 2 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 4 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 3 records
- Mabul & Kapalai, Malaysia - 1 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 1 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 8 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 2 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 1 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 1 records