Conus malacanus Hwass, 1792

Venkitesan, R., Barua, S. & Hafiz, Md., 2019, Contribution to the knowledge on Indian Marine Molluscs: Family Conidae, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (2), pp. 165-184 : 177

49. Conus malacanus Hwass in Bruguiere

1792. Conus malacanus Hwass in Bruguiere, Meth. Hist. Nat . des Vers., 1: 645, no. 43.

1873. Conus cuneatus Sowerby, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. , p.146, pl. 15, fig. 5.

Material examined: Based on the published literature ( Franklin et al., 2009)

Distribution: India: Andaman-Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu. Elsewhere: New Guinea, Sri Lanka

Remarks: Kohn (1978) stated that the distribution of C. malacanus is restricted to the east coast. It often occurs in the same habitat as like C. monile , C. bayani , C. amadis and C. betulinus .