Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Conus orion Broderip, 1833

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Conoidea

Family
Conidae

Genus
Conus

Species
orion

Taxon category: Accepted

fide Appeltans, W. et al. (2010)

Origin: Native

References

  • Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
  • 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.
  • Pitt, W.D. James, M.J., Hickman, C.S., Lipps, J.H. & Pitt, L.J. (1986) Late Cenozoïc marine mollusks from tuff cones in the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 44(12): 269-282.

You are welcome to download and use the information found in this page, acknowledging its source.

This page should be cited as follows:

"Galapagos Species Database, Conus orion", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=17206. Accessed 1 November 2026.