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Tessellate cone
Conus tessulatus
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 215519, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Tessellate cone
- Scientific
- Conus tessulatus
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Cone snails
- Family
- Conidae (cone snails)
- Maximum size
- Up to about 8.2 cm (shell length)
- Depth and habitat
- Sea floor (benthic), recorded from 0 to 20 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2011
Description
The tessellate cone has a white shell with squarish orange to red blotches arranged in rows like tiles. It lives on sand and rubble on shallow reefs and hunts worms. Like all cones, it is venomous.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=19); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=9, 6 observers).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Conus-tessulatus.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215519
- inaturalist.org /taxa/328686
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Tesselliconus_tessulatus_01.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.