Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Conus purpurascens
cono púrpura, Purple cone
Length: 50 mm; diameter: 28 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), Low Intertidal, on rocks or burried on sand.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Conoidea
Family
Conidae
Genus
Conus
Species
purpurascens
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Conus regalitatis Sowerby, 1834; AMNH: 101361, 110454, 110716, 110722, 117936, 163921, 164500, 164508, 164520, 164538, 164542, 164549, 164564, 164601, 165275, ANSP: 81829, 81830, 81831, 152508, 153187, 153374, 153485, 153576, 153608, 324455, 324476, USNM: several specimens, LACM: several specimens (ex.: 71-63, 71-69, 71-72, 71-76, 72-191, 72-193, AHF 167-34), BMNH: acc. n° 2271: 1 specimen (Charles Lyell coll., C. Darwin material), MHNG: 964-116, CDRS: 194, 208, 501, 872, 1045, 1049, 1052, 1061, 1560, 1561, CLHI: 97-240 (CDRS), FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984, MHNG expedition to the Galapagos, 1993 Syn.: Chelyconus purpurascens (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833), Conus (Chelyconus) purpurascens G. B. Sowerby I, 1833, Conus comptus Gould, 1853, Conus luzonicus sensu G. B. Sowerby II, 1858, Conus purpurascens var. rejectus Dall, 1910, Conus regalitatis G. B. Sowerby I, 1834 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Baja California to Peru and Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 pp.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
- 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.
- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 Https://www.iucnredlist.org
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"Galapagos Species Database, Conus purpurascens", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8058. Accessed 9 June 2025.