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Conidae From French Polynesia

Conidae From French Polynesia
By David Touitou & Michel Balleton 2004
Full Revision : October 2013 (David Touitou & Michel Balleton)
Last update : March 2018

Rarity Classification

Classement personnel de la rareté (*) :
Très commum - Commum - Peu Commum - Assez rare - Rare - Très rare
(*) = La rareté indiquée correspond aux années avant 2003-2004

Personnal rarity classification (*) :
Very common- Commom - Uncommon - Moderately Rare- Rare - Very rare
(*) = the rarity indicated refers to years before 2003-2004

Click on the name of the shell to reach the specie details
Cliquez sur le nom d'espèce pour accéder à la fiche détaillée

The thumbs below do not fit to the real scale of the shells as some
would be too small or to big if we respect sizes in %

A. Deep Water species from Marquesas


Conus dieteri	Conus hivanus	Conus pepeiu	C.pseudoimperialis	Conus tiki	Conus troendlei

Images copyright : MNHN (Paris, France), MUSORSTOM 9 Mission, 1997
Conus pseudoimperialis have been also found in the Marquesas live by divers in 25-35m and is not restricted to deep water.
Conus tiki have been also trawled in the Tuamotu archipelago (TARASOC mission)

B. Deep Water species (Tarava Mount, Society, Tuamotu)


Conus aphrodite	Conus baileyi	Conus cakobani	Conus chiangi	Conus darkini	Conus dusavelli


Conus finjiensis	Conus lani	Conus orbignyi	Conus richardsae	C. ochroleuceus	Conus tirardi


Conus paumotu	Conus aito	Conus tarava	Conus tiki

Images copyright : MNHN (Paris, France) ; TARASOC mission 2009 (Published : Xenophora Taxonomy N°5 October 2014)
Some other species trawled we already listed below in main iconography : Conus vappereaui, Conus luteus, Conus boutetorum

C. Main Iconography

(M): Marquesas color variation or Endemics
(PE): image from perlae.fr (website down)
(SP): image from www.shellspassion.com
(TUA) : Tuamotu color variation or Endemics
(CS) : image from ww.coneshell.net
(PM) : image from Parrick Marti
(P&B) : image from Edward Petuch & David P. Berchauer
(CR) : image from Christophe Roux


C. acutangulus	C. adamsonii	C. adamsonii (M)	C. arenatus	C. aristophanes	C. auratinus


C. auratinus	C. auratinus	C. aureus	C. auricomus	C. bandanus	C. bandanus


C. boutetorum	C. boutetorum	C. bullatus	C. bullatus	C. bullatus (M)	C. canonicus


C. catus	C. catus	C. catus	C. catus (M)	C. chaldeus	C. chaldeus


C. circumcisus	C. circumcisus	C. circumcisus	C. coffeae	C. coffeae	C. conco (M)


C. coronatus	C. cynlindraceus	C. distans	C. easoni (M)(P&B)	C. easoni (M)(P&B)	C. easoni (M)(P&B)

C. easoni (M)(P&B)	C. ebraeus	C. eburneus	C. eldredi (TUA/CR)	C. eldredi (TUA/CR)	C. eldredi (TUA/CR)