Range: Taiwan, Philippines, Solomon Is., and Loyalty Is., and New Caledonia.

Description: Medium-sized, moderately solid. Last- whorl usually conical, outline nearly straight. Shoulder subangulate to indistinct. Spire high, outline straight to slightly convex. Larval shell of almost 2 whorls, maximum diameter about 0.9 mm. First 4-5 postnuclear whorls tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps nearly flat, with 2-3 increasing to 5-7 spiral grooves, weaker in late whorls. Last whorl with fine spiral ribs from base to shoulder, sometimes obsolete adapically and minutely granulose at base.

Colour light to dark brown, with scattered white mark ings on last-whorl and late sutural ramps. In some specimens, white markings form an indistinct spiral band below centre of last whorl. Larval whorls and first 2-4 teleoconch sutural ramps white. Aperture white.

Habitat and Habits: In 75-560 m (New Caledonia).

Discussion: C. lani resembles C. smirna in shape, but the latter species attains larger size, its last whorl has a slightly pyriform outline, and it lacks uniform brown colouration with scattered white spots. For distinctions from C. profundorum, C. ikedai, C. scopulicula and C. darkini see the DISCUSSIONS of these species.

C. lani 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.