Conus ammiralis – Young granulated specimen

Species: Conus ammiralis

Author: Linnaeus, 1758

Locality: Olango, Philippines

Size: 26.0mm

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Description

Description

Caught 10~35m 2011. Perfect. Granulated cones are always choice specimens in the collection. However, some cones are more commonly granulated when young. This is just a representative of a young granulated Admiral cone. We do not normally encourage collection of young material unless it is absolutely neccesary to show the variation of there is a major difference in the adult form.