Conus bengalensis (Okutani)

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 : 170-171

14. Conus bengalensis (Okutani) (Plate II-fig. 14)

1968. Darioconus bengalensis Okutani, Venus , 26 (3&4), p. 66, Pl. 7.

1968. Conus insculptus (Kien) : Subramanyam, Karandikar and Murti, J. Univ. Bombay, 21(3): 53, fig.158.

1906. Conus (Rhizoconus) punctatus : Comber, J. Bombay nat Hist. Soc., 17: 213.

Material examined: Tamil Nadu- 4 exs. Measurements (in mm): Length: 60.30-90.20 Diameter:

45.40-55.30 Aperture: 38.10-43.10

Distribution: India: Bay of Bengal, Elsewhere: W. Thailand; Taiwan to Philippines; Papua New Guinea, Australia and Fiji

Remarks: Rockel et al., (1995) observed that the shells of C. bengalensis from southeast India differed from typical C. bengalensis in having a broader body whorl. However, the specimens from Gulf of Mannar had comparatively narrowly conical body whorl. Conus bengalensis is rare along the Tamil Nadu Coast. ( Franklin et al., 2009)