The “Pallisade Cone” or “Deer Cone” is a large and magnificent cone ranging from Philippines to Moluccas to New Caledonia. It is and has always been among the most celebrated rarities in the family, and is one of S. Peter Dance’s 50 “Rare Shells” (1969).

Once extremely scarce, some considered it to be merely a form of Textilia bullatus (Linnaeus, 1758) but as more specimens became available for comparison it proved to be a distinct species. The actual provenance of it was unclear until after mid-1900s because majority of the specimens known in collections before then were from very old collections with unreliable locality data.

It is a venomous fish-hunting gastropod and inhabit sandy to rubbly bottoms of rather deep water around -150~400m deep. It is the largest member of the genus Textilia with typical shell length at around 100mm, very large specimens are known to exceed 125mm. As is typical for the genus, mature specimens have a thickened lip; the pattern is quite variable. – From Chong Chen’s post