Conus fumigatus (Hwass in Bruguière, 1792)
Description: Moderately small to moderately large, moderately solid to solid. Last whorl conical to broadly conical; outline convex at adapical third, straight below. Shoulder angulate. Spire of low to moderate height, outline concave to straight. Maximum diameter of larval shell 0.9 mm. Early postnuclear whorls tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat to slightly concave, with 1-2 increasing to 4 spiral grooves, finer and more numerous but weak or even obsolete on later ramps. Last whorl with weak or obsolete spiral ribs at base.
Range: Red Sea; recently reported from the Mediterranean Sea (Libya) (Röckel, 1986) (Pl. 22, Fig. 25).
Reported also in Lybia and Israel.
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