Flea Cone
Conus pulicarius
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 38 diving areas across 22 countries and 4 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 21 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 21 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 11 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 19 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 8 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 3 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 28 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 37 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 1 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 3 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 6 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 1 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 6 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 9 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 8 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 16 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 37 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 8 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 22 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 2 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 3 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 2 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 3 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 1 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 2 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 6 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 1 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 4 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 1 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 1 records