Conus fulmen

Conus fulmen, common name the thunderbolt cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.^[3]

Conus fulmen
Apertural view of a shell of Conus fulmen
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Conidae
Genus:	Conus
Species:	C. fulmen
Binomial name
Conus fulmen Reeve, 1843[2]
Synonyms[3]
Chelyconus fulmen (Reeve, 1843) Chelyconus fulmen kirai Kuroda, 1956 Conus (Pioconus) fulmen Reeve, 1843 accepted, alternate representation Conus fulmen kirai Kuroda, 1956 Conus modestus G. B. Sowerby II, 1833 (name suppressed by ICZN Opinion 1699) Conus wistaria Shikama, 1970 Pionoconus fulmen (Reeve, 1843)

Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of stinging humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.

Description

The size of an adult shell varies from 45 mm and 80 mm.

The shell is somewhat elongately ovate, smooth and slightly grooved towards the base. The color of the shell is pale rose-purple, white round the middle ; longitudinally marked with two or three very prominent, broad, waved, purple-brown streaks. The spire is obtusely convex, variegated with purple-brown. The apex is rose-tinted.^[4]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Vietnam and South Japan to the Ryukyus