Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Conus (Virroconus) coronatus Gmelin, 1791, Conus minimus var. condoriana Crosse & P. Fischer, 1864, Conus multibandatus Bozzetti, 2017, Conus parvus Gebauer, 1802, Conus virgineus Link, 1807, Cucullus coronalis Röding, 1798 Miliariconus coronatus (Gmelin, 1791) (Horton et al., 2021); Finet (2001): An Indo-Pacific species. Wimmer (1880) cited “Conus (Coronaxis) coronatus Dillwyn” from the Galapagos, but this record is probably based on a misidentification.

Origin: Native

Distribution: Coral Sea, New Zealand, Indian Ocean, Madagascar, Red sea (Horton et al., 2021).

• Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
• Wimmer, A. (1880) Zur Conchylien-Fauna der Galapagos-Inseln. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathemat.-naturwissenschaftl. Kl., vol. 80, Abt. 1, no. 10 (1879): 465-514.
• Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.