Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Conus fergusoni
cono gigante, Giant cone
Length: 170 mm; width: 87 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), intertidal, in sandy sediments, also in the subtidal to depths of dredging.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Conoidea
Family
Conidae
Genus
Conus
Species
fergusoni
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Conus consanguineus, Conus fulvocinctus, USNM: 102270, 102450, 796210, CDRS: 507, 843, 1027, 1063, 1295, MHNG expedition to the Galapagos, 1993
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: From Turtle Bay, Baja California South of Gulf to Perú and Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)
- 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.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 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
- 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 fergusoni", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8707. Accessed 30 October 2026.