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CONIDAE 261
brown dots sometimes present on sides. Interior of aperture pinkish white.
Color of spire is orange with large white splotches. Uncommon below 15
feet of water.
Conus juliae Clench Julia's Cone
Off northeast Florida to Tortugas.
Plate 14b
1% to 2 inches in length. Spire moderately high, flat-sided and with
about 10 to 12 whorls. Shoulders of whorls slightly rounded; sides nearly
flat. Color a pale pinkish brown to orangish with a moderate and indistinct
band of cream or white at the mid area. This is overlaid with a series of fine
spiral, broken lines or dots of brown. Spire whitish with axial, zigzag, reddish
brown streaks. A choice collector's item. Named after Mrs. WiUiam J.
Clench, a great contributor to the cause of malacology.
Conns floridamis Gabb Florida Cone
North Carolina to both sides of Florida.
Plate i4d
1/4 to 1% inches in length. Spire well-elevated and slightly concave.
Sides of whorls flat. The top of each whorl in the spire is concave and also
has faint lines of growth. Color variable: usually white with elongate, rather
wide patches of light orange-yellow to yellow. Spire with splashes of color.
There is usually a white, spiral band around the middle of the whorl which
may have small dots of yellowish brown. Moderately common in shallow
water to 7 fathoms.
Conus ftoridaniis floridensis Sowerby (pi. 146) is an extremely dark color
form with spiral rows of reddish brown dots and heavier mottlings.
C. floridanus biirryae Clench is another color form from off the Lower
Florida Keys in which the spiral rows of brownish dots merge into solid lines.
The lower end of the shell in very dark brown to deep brownish black. Uncommon.
Conus sennottorum Rehder and Abbott Sennotts' Cone
Gulf of Mexico, from Tortugas to Yucatan.
Plate i4h
I inch in length, with a glossy, smooth finish. Slightly turnip-shaped.
Color variable: white to bluish white with spiral rows of very small brown
dots. Yellowish-brown maculations may be present. Moderately common in
18 fathoms off Yucatan. Named after John and Gladys Sennott.
Conus sozoni Bartsch
South Carolina to Key West and the Gulf of Mexico.
Sozon's Cone
Plate 14c