Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Conus dalli
cono de dall, Dall cono
Length: 50 mm; diameter: 27 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), Intertidal, far from the coast.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Conoidea
Family
Conidae
Genus
Conus
Species
dalli
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Conus (Cylinder) dalli Stearns, 1873, Cylinder dalli (Stearns, 1873), Cylindrus gillei Jousseaume, 1883 (Horton et al., 2021); AMNH: 110475, 139484, 164498, 164550, 164585, ANSP: 222398, 334905, USNM: 678880, 806585, 812784, LACM: 71-67, 72-191, AHF 796-38, CAS: several specimens, MHNG: 964-117, CDRS: 196, 793, 1056, 1068, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984, MHNG expedition to the Galapagos, 1993, Syn.: Cylindrus gillei Jousseaume, 1884 (synonym of Conus dalli Stearns, 1873)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: South of Gulf of California to Colombia and Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)
- 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.
- Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Hickin, N. (1979) Animal life of the Galapagos. Ferundune Books, Faringdon, U.K., 236 pp.
- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 Https://www.iucnredlist.org
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Conus dalli", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8102. Accessed 30 October 2026.