About Conus miles Linnaeus, 1758
The adult shell of Conus miles Linnaeus, 1758 ranges in size between 50 mm and 136 mm. Its spire is faintly tuberculate or smooth, and rather depressed. This thick shell has nodular shoulders on its whorls. The body whorl is edged by a broad shoulder and features spiral ridges at its base. The thick shell has a base color of yellowish white or pale orange, covered with close, narrow, wavy, thread-like longitudinal chestnut striations. These striations are interrupted by a fairly narrow, chocolate-colored revolving band located above the middle of the shell. The base of the shell is stained chocolate, with progressively lighter bands extending upward from it. The aperture of the shell is banded in alternating chocolate and white. This cone snail is distributed across Aldabra, Chagos, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Red Sea, Tanzania, the entire Indo-Pacific region, and off the coast of Australia in Northern Territory, Queensland, and Western Australia.
