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Banded marble cone
Conus bandanus
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 215557, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Banded marble cone
- Scientific
- Conus bandanus
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Cone snails
- Family
- Conidae (cone snails)
- Maximum size
- Up to about 9.3 cm (shell length)
- Depth and habitat
- Sea floor (benthic), recorded from 5 to 90 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2011
Description
The banded marble cone has a large shell with a bold pattern of white tent-like triangles on dark brown to black, in bands. It hunts other snails. It is closely related to the marble cone, whose stings have been serious, so it should not be handled.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=15); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=5, 5 observers).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Conus-bandanus.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215557
- inaturalist.org /taxa/431861
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Conus_bandanus_1.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.