page_title: Conus pulcher
hierarchical_section_title: Conus pulcher
caption_attribution_description: English: Conus pulcher, Lightfoot 1786. Albino shell 155 mm, regular shell 128 mm. With periostracum. Banjul, The Gambia, 2004.
context_page_description: Conus pulcher, common name the butterfly cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
  Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.
  There is one subspecies: Conus pulcher siamensis Hwass in Bruguière, 1792
  According to Bernard, experts do not agree on the identity of this cone and therefore it seemed better to separate it into two varieties, according to their habitat. Bernard thus mentions two Conus pulcher varieties: C. pulcher f. papilionaceus and C. pulcher f. prometheus
context_section_description: Conus pulcher, common name the butterfly cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
  Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.
  There is one subspecies : Conus pulcher siamensis Hwass in Bruguière, 1792
  According to Bernard, experts do not agree on the identity of this cone and therefore it seemed better to separate it into two varieties, according to their habitat. Bernard thus mentions two Conus pulcher varieties: C. pulcher f. papilionaceus (Lightfoot, 1786) and C. pulcher f. prometheus (Lightfoot, 1786)
caption: A Shell of albinistic and of regular colour, both with periostracum.
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