Range: Known only from N. Somalia.

Description: Medium-sized to moderately large, usually moderately solid. Last whorl conical or ventricosely conical; outline convex at adapical third, less so at central third, and straight (right side) or concave (left side) below. Shoulder subangulate to rounded, usually broadly carinate. Spire of moderate height, outline straight to slightly convex, with projecting, stepped apex. Larval shell of about 3 whorls, maximum diameter about 1.2 mm. First 4-6 postnuclear whorls tuberculate, later whorls carinate. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat or slightly concave, with closely spaced axial threads and almost obsolete spiral striae. Last whorl with punctate or axially striate spiral grooves at base and weak ribs or narrow ribbons between.

Ground colour white. Last whorl usually with an interrupted spiral band of brown axial blotches above centre, sometimes with traces of a similar band below shoulder. Generally sparse spiral rows of variably numerous light brown dots, dashes or bars occur primarily adapically. Completely white shells intergrade with heavily dotted specimens. Larval whorls white. Teleoconch sutural ramps either immaculate or with very sparse brown dots or dashes, often aligned at outer margin in early whorls. Aperture white.

Periostracum olive-brown, rather thin, opaque, with fine interlaced axial ridges on last whorl and separate prominent radial ridges on spire.

Habitat and Habits: In 150-200 m.

Discussion: C. bozzettii resembles C. ione, C. teramachii and C. gradatulus Weinkauff 1875 (see Vol. 2). C. ione attains larger size (to 76 mm), is heavier (RW 0.15-0.35 g/mm), and has a broader last whorl (RD 0.55-0.64). It differs additionally in its slightly pyriform last whorl, more angulate or carinate shoulder, and in its more prominent spiral sculpture on the last whorl. The violet shades often present in C. ione are absent in C. bozzettii; in the former species, brown blotches form a spiral band on each side of the centre of the last whorl. C. teramachii is a larger species (to 111 mm) and lacks any pattern; its shoulder is more angulate and strongly carinate, and its sutural ramps have a prominent spiral sculpture. C. gradatulus attains larger size, has a generally broader last whorl (RD to 0.64), its pattern lacks spiral rows of dots, and the pink background shades often seen in this species are absent in C. bozzettii.

C. bozzettii range map

This section contains verbatim reproductions of the accounts of 316 species of Conus from the Indo-Pacific region, from Manual of the Living Conidae, by Röckel, Korn and Kohn (1995). They are reproduced with the kind permission of the present publisher, Conchbooks.

All plates and figures referred to in the text are also in Röckel, Korn & Kohn, 1995. Manual of the Living Conidae Vol. 1: Indo-Pacific Region.

The range maps have been modified so that each species account has it own map, rather than one map that showed the ranges of several species in the original work. This was necessary because each species account is on a separate page on the website and not confined to the order of accounts in the book.