Conus striatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

A large low-spired cone that is strongly shouldered, but the area of maximum width lies about one-fifth of the distance from shoulder to base. The New Hebrides shell from USGS locality 21028, USNM 214412, measures: length 73.0 mm, diameter 35.3 mm. The figured fossil specimen from Fiji (British Museum specimen from station RB44, Viti, Levu) is smaller than fossils from Tonga and the New Hebrides and most Holocene shells; it measures: length 49.7 mm, diameter 23.8 mm.

Occurrence.—Station RB44, Viti Levu, Fiji; age,Pliocene (Tertiary h).

Fossils have also been collected from elevated limestones on Santo, New Hebrides (USGS locality 21028), and similar rock in quarries on Tongatapu, Tonga, (Ostergaard, 1935, p. 25). These occurrences as well as others on Oahu

in Hawaii (Kohn, 1959, p. 392) are probably Pleistocene. The species lives today in the Indo-Pacific from Africa to Hawaii.


*Conus striatus* mm. 94,6 x 41,8 Filippine – Balabac Island 10-25 m. – 2008 (cfr. Manual of The Living Conidae Pl. 44 n. 22) [AZRC 690-03 / 432669]	*Conus* *striatus* mm. 83,1 x 34,1 (Linnaeus 1758) - Bali [AZRC 690-01]	Conus striatus Plate 29 fig. 3 ⁽¹⁾ USNM 214412 - 73.0 mm USGS locality 21028 Probably Pleistocene	Conus striatus Lectotype LSL mm. 62 x 31	Conus striatus Plate 29 fig. 4 ⁽¹⁾ 49.7 mm British Museum Station RB44, VitiLevu, Fiji Pliocene (Tertiary h)

Bibliografia Consultata

(1) - Ladd (1982) “Cenozoic ·Fossil Mollusks From Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eulimidae and Volutidae Through Terebridae)”