Conus praecellens Adams

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 : 178

59. Conus praecellens Adams (Plate IV fig. 42)

1854. Conus praecellens Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. , p. 119

1870. Conus sowerbyi var. subaequalis Sowerby Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. , p. 257, pl. 22, fig. 5.

Material examined: Tamil Nadu - 2 ex.

Measurements (in mm): Length: 38.10–48.00 Diameter:

19.00–25.50 Aperture: 22.00–24.20

Distribution: India; Tamil Nadu. Elsewhere: Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Madagascar, New Caledonia, Philippines, Somalia, Thailand.

Remarks: C. praecellens appears to be an extremely rare species along the Tamil Nadu Coast (Frnaklin et al., 2009). C. praecellens varies from C. acutangulus with very widely diameter and weakly sculptured last whorl with maculation of light brown.