Conus abrolhosensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.[1]
These snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans.
Original description: "Shell small for genus, biconic in shape, spire elevated; body whorl shiny, polished, sculptured with numerous raised spiral cords; spiral cords become stronger at anterior end; shoulder sharp-angled, carinated; carina coronated on spire, with coronations becoming less developed and obsolete on final half of the body whorl; aperture narrow, shell color variable, ranging from orange (holotype) to white and blue-purple; holotype with scattered white patches around mid-body and anterior tip; spire whorls of holotype dark orange with evenly-spaced, oval-shaped white flammules around edge of periphery; on white and purple specimens, spire dark brown, with same pattern of evenly-spaced white flammules; protoconch large, mamillate; periostracum thin, translucent, smooth, with row of small tufts along shoulder carina and spire carinathat correspond to shoulder carinations."[2]
The size of the shell varies between 11 mm and 30 mm.
Locus typicus: "Off Parcel das Paredes, Abrolhos Archipelago,
Bahia State, Brazil."[3]
This marine species of Cone snail occurs in the Caribbean Sea
and off the Abrolhos Archipelago, Eastern Brasil.
"Named for the Abrolhos Archipelago and reef complex,
Bahia State, Brazil - the type locality."[4]