Conidae A-D

Conus clerii Reeve 1844 Outstanding Light! F+++ 42 mm. Very beautiful. White color with attractive tones of brown, beige and blue sparse pattern. Bluish/white aperture and lip with bluish, brown marks. Has few micro defects and slightly chipped protoconch doesn't detract from it's overall beauty. Trawled 100-120 m. Off Macae, North Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2015

Conus bartschi Hanna & Strongi 1949 Gorgeous Granulose! F+++/Gem 23,4 mm. Very beautiful and very rare now. Brown color with yellowish marks, attractive cream shoulder knobs and granulose cords. Bluish/white  aperture and beige lip with brown dots Has a nick. Dredged at 40-45 m. Off Gobernadora Isl. Veraguas, West Panama 1995

Conus bengalensis Okutani 1968 Gorgeous!F++/F+++ 85,7 mm. Very beautiful. Orange color with blackish axial streaks marks, attractive white with orange/brown over line pattern. White aperture and lip with blackish marks. Has a small healed slightly growth mark on the base near the shoulder and chipped upper rough lip doesn't detract from it's overall beauty. Trawled at 70-100 m. Kollam, Kerala, India 2005