Range: Réunion and Mauritius.

Description: Medium-sized to moderately large, moderately solid to solid. Last whorl ovate to ventricosely conical; outline almost straight at adapical fourth, then convex and rather angulate at position of maximum diameter, almost straight below centre. Aperture broad at base, narrow near shoulder. Shoulder angulate to subangulate. Spire low, outline slightly concave, straight or sigmoid. Larval shell of 3-3.5 whorls, maximum diameter 0.8-0.9 mm. About first 3.5 postnuclear whorls tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps slightly concave, with 0 increasing to 1-2 spiral grooves in early whorls, grading to 10 weak spiral grooves or numerous often obsolete spiral striae in latest whorls. Last whorl with prominent widely spaced spiral ribs on basal fourth to third.

Ground colour white, sometimes with sparse pinkish violet shadows. Last whorl with orange to reddish or dark brown wavy axial lines, concentrated or fusing into blotches and forming spiral bands below shoulder, just above centre and within basal third. Larval whorls white. Postnuclear sutural ramps with orange, violet, or brown radial streaks and blotches; the latter may contain darker radial lines. Aperture pink to orange behind a white collabral zone.

Periostracum pale olive, thin, translucent, smooth.

Habitat and Habits: In 25-100 m.

Discussion: C. julii is quite distinct from its congeners, except some shells of C. floccatus may be rather similar; for comparison, see the DISCUSSION of the latter species.

C. julii 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.