Range: New Caledonia region.

Description: Moderately large to large, solid. Last whorl conical, outline convex below shoulder, slightly concave centrally, otherwise straight. Shoulder subangulate. Spire low, outline concave. First 5-6 postnuclear whorls tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps concave, with 2 increasing to 3-5 spiral grooves, turning into striae in latest whorls. Last whorl with a few spiral ribs at base.

Colour light brown to reddish brown. Last whorl with small and medium-sized, separate or overlappig white tents and flecks, concentrated at centre, below shoulder and at base. Postnuclear sutural ramps with white radial streaks and blotches. Aperture white.

Periostracum yellowish white, very thin, translucent, smooth.

Dorsum of foot white, with connected brown blotches, flecks and veins medially and with variably spaced black radial streaks and blotches marginally. Sides of foot yellow, flecked with white. Sole of foot yellow. Rostrum orangish yellow. Tentacles white, mottled with brown proximally; tip orange-yellow. Siphon white, edged with yellow, with a black transverse band 1/3 of the length from the tip; proximal part mottled with brown dorso-laterally (Anonymous, 1984; Estival, unpubl. observ.).

Habitat and Habits: In 30-100 m; on sloping sand bottoms. C. lamberti was observed to feed on gastropods (Anonymous, 1984).

Discussion: C. lamberti is similar to the form magister of C. crocatus. The latter can be distinguished by its broader last whorl (RD 0.55-0.64), by having about 2 weakly tuberculate (instead of 5-6 distinctly tuberculate) postnuclear whorls, a convex rather than concave teleoconch sutural ramps, and a rounded rather than subangulate shoulder. The two species also differ in the colour pattern of their animals.

C. lamberti 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.