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Ivory cone
Conus eburneus
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 215559, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Ivory cone
- Scientific
- Conus eburneus
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Cone snails
- Family
- Conidae (cone snails)
- Maximum size
- Up to about 4 cm (shell length)
- Depth and habitat
- Sea floor (benthic), recorded from 3 to 63 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2011
Description
The ivory cone has a heavy, white shell patterned with rows of black to dark brown spots, sometimes with pale yellow bands. It lives on sand and rubble in shallow lagoons and on reef flats, where it hunts worms. Like all cone snails it has a venomous harpoon and should not be handled.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=29); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=31, 17 observers).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Conus-eburneus.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215559
- inaturalist.org /taxa/338263
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Conus_eburneus_polyglotta.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.