Range: Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf.

Description: Small to moderately small, light. Last whorl conical; outline straight or slightly convex adapically and straight (right side) to concave (left side) below. Shoulder angulate, completely or partly tuberculate. Spire high, outline slightly concave. Larval shell of 1.75-2.0 whorls, maximum diameter 0.8-0.9 mm. Shells of 21-26 mm with 8-9.25 postnuclear whorls, the first 7.5-9.0 tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat to slightly concave, with 1-2 increasing to 2-4 spiral grooves; latest ramps may have additional spiral striae. Entire last whorl with nearly regularly spaced spiral grooves separated by ribs at anterior end and by ribbons above; very large specimens grade to smooth adapically.

Ground colour white. Last whorl with largely separate brown axial flecks, streaks and flames. Larval whorls white. Later teleoconch sutural ramps with partially confluent brown radial blotches. Aperture white, suffused with pale violet.

Periostracum brown, thin, slightly translucent, velvety.

Habitat and Habits: In 9-45 m.

Discussion: Moolenbeek & Coomans (1986) considered C. milesi the juvenile stage of C. dictator. Subadult specimens of C. dictator (L 17-28 mm) are similar to C. milesi in shape, weight and sculpture, and small ones may also be so in pattern. However, C. dictator has a generally lower spire (RSH 0.17-0.26), fewer postnuclear whorls (5.75-7.75), and only the first 4.5-7 postnuclear whorls are tuberculate. The periostracum of C. dictator is thinner, smoother and more translucent. Adults and large subadults of C. dictator also differ from C. milesi by their finer colour pattern with numerous spiral rows of dots. C. lentiginosus can be distinguished from C. milesi by its broader and more ventricose last whorl (RD 0.60-0.69; PMD 0.80-0.89), lower spire (RSH 0.18-0.24), and fewer tuberculate spire whorls (3-5)(Röckel, 1988a; Korn, 1990). For comparison with C. elegans, see the Discussion of that species.

C. milesi 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.