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Conus cone snail (no English common name)
Conus omaria
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 215498, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Conus cone snail (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Conus omaria
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Cone snails
- Family
- Conidae (cone snails)
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
Description
A cone with white tent-like markings on brown. It hunts other snails and should not be handled.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=1). Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215498
- inaturalist.org /observations/32750751
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.