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Created 9/10/2025

Family Conidae

INDO-WEST PACIFIC / HAWAII

Conus capitaneus

   


Pearl Harbor, Oahu 
(Padgett Carpenter collection)

  
   

CAPTAIN CONE  

Very rare in Hawaii on sandy reefs, but common elsewhere.  Shell heavy, spire whorls with three spiral grooves, two broad greenish-brown bands and a well-defined white midboby band, numerous spirals of dark brown squares, aperture violet toward base, juveniles olive green.   Attains 3.9 inches, 98 mm.  East Africa to Japan, Samoa, and Hawaii.