cloth-of-gold cone snail
Conus textile
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 46 diving areas across 29 countries and 6 regions.
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 69 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 19 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 25 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 3 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 21 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 11 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 22 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 2 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 4 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 14 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 13 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 12 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 12 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 13 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 3 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 7 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 3 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 1 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 8 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 16 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 1 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 20 records
- Dar es Salaam & Offshore Islands, Tanzania - 19 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 26 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 1 records
- El Gouna, Egypt - 3 records
- Marsa Alam, Egypt - 1 records
- Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea - 2 records
- Eilat, Israel - 2 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 1 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 3 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 2 records
- Malapascua, Philippines - 4 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 18 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 5 records