Pertusus 1

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Found under rocks or in coral rubble on the seaward reef by day and emerging at night in ledges and small caves in white sand beneath coral boulders, collected by local scuba diver at 25 meters deep on sand and coral reef at night.

1.W1-0103.0104
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Data sheet

Family
Conidae
Genus
Rhizoconus
Species
Pertusus
Author
Hwass in Bruguière, 1792
Size (mm)
42.2
Country
Philippines.
Locality
Bohol Is. Panglao area.
Range
Indian Ocean from Chagos to the Seychelles, and, Maldives Is. the Mozambique, Western Madagascar to, the Mauritius Reunion Is., the Mascarene Is to Andaman Sea the Thailand
Phuket area and the Western Pacific Ocean Southern China Sea, the Philippines, Japan, to the Moluccas Is. in Indonesia and Western Australia, North Queensland, Solomons Is the Vanuatu, the Marshall Is. and Hawaiian Islands.
Grading
Gem w/o
Collected in
1987
Ranking
*** uncommon
Mètres
-25