> yes, a few are there. I can confirm tessulatus from northern New Zealand,
> offshore. The shells are apparently more slender than elsewhere.
> Guido
Now that's interesting. I believe C. tessulatus has the widest distribution
of any Conus species, and among the widest of any Neogastropod. Could I ask
Conch-L people to take part in a little exercise? Send your C. tessulatus
records to me and let's see how far we can spread its distribution. As a
starter, I have specimens from
Mombasa, Kenya as an eastern limit; from Costa Rica as the western limit;
from here in Japan (Kii peninsula) in the north, and now this record from
New Zealand as a southern limit. In between, I have them from the
Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. Where else is C. tessulatus found?