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Conus pulicarius

Flea Cone

IUCN: least concernmarine

Hwass, 1792Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 215492 ↗

Photo: (c) Takaaki Hattori, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Takaaki Hattori (iNaturalist)

297

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1898

First collected

2003

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Conus pulicarius, most mentions first.

  1. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species at Waikiki and Hawaii Kai, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  2. 2001

    Marine species survey of Johnston Atoll, central Pacific Ocean, June 2000

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & D. Minton · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  3. 2004

    Assessment of nonindigenous species on coral reefs in the Hawaiian Islands, with emphasis on introduced invertebrates

    Coles, S.L., L.G. Eldredge, F. Kandel, P.R. Reath & K. Longenecker · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  4. 2002

  5. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species in Kane‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

169 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1890s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1898 by Milton J. Flood; Ditlev Due Thaanum (Australia; Queensland; North Queensland; Barrier Reef). The Museum last collected it in 2003; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as October 25, 2026.

From the collection

Conus pulicarius, 66910Conus pulicarius, 199696Conus pulicarius, 199697Conus pulicarius, 199698Conus pulicarius, 199699Conus pulicarius, 199700Conus pulicarius, 199701Conus pulicarius, 199702Conus pulicarius, 199703Conus pulicarius, 199704Conus pulicarius, 199705Conus pulicarius, 203916

Alive today

121 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.