Conus lizardensis    (Crosse, 1895)


Description: Moderately small to medium-sized, moderately solid. Last whorl conical to ventricosely conical or conoid-cylindrical, outline slightly convex at adapical third and straight below. Shoulder usually sharply angulate. Spire of low to moderate height, outline concave. Larval shell of about 2 whorls, maximum diameter 0.8-0.9 mm. First 0.75-3 postnuclear whorls weakly tuberculate; specimens of about 45 mm with about 10 postnuclear whorls. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat, sometimes concave in late whorls, with 1 increasing to 4-6 spiral grooves. Last whorl with variably broad spiral ribbons extending from base to shoulder, sometimes replaced by ribs near base and just below shoulder; intervening grooves axially striate, wider at base and often containing a fine spiral rib; large specimens almost smooth on adapical third to half.



Conus cf. lizardensis
mm. 34,4 x 17,2
Miocene
Rembang, Java, Indonesia
[AZFC 576-01] – Shellauction 280
[Sodium hypochlorite bath: the highlighted color pattern minimizes the possibility that this specimen could be associated with Conus aculeiformis]


Conus lizardensis (Crosse, 1895)
Holotype BMNH 1977179 - Donated by Hugh Cuming
mm. 18 x 8,5

Conus cf. lizardensis
mm. 34,4 x 17,2
Miocene
Rembang, Java, Indonesia
[AZFC 576-01] – Shellauction 280




Conus cf. lizardensis
mm. 34,4 x 17,2
Miocene
Rembang, Java, Indonesia
[AZFC 576-01] – Shellauction 280
Conus lizardensis (Crosse, 1895)
Holotype BMNH 1977179 - Donated by Hugh Cuming
mm. 18 x 8,5