Sponsal Cone
Conus sponsalis
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 - 24 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 24 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 24 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 27 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 23 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 44 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 15 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 6 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 29 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 8 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 4 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 3 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 3 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 4 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 2 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 5 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 22 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 24 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 33 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 10 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 13 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 2 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 5 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 5 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 3 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 11 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 3 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 11 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 5 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 4 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 2 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 9 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 3 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 12 records
- Mancora & North Coast, Peru - 1 records
- Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesia - 1 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 4 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 1 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 7 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 1 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 1 records
- Hoi An & Cu Lao Cham, Vietnam - 1 records