Range: E. Australia from southern Queensland to northern New South Wales.

Description: Medium-sized, moderately solid to solid. Last whorl conical to ventricosely conical; outline slightly convex, generally straighter toward base. Shoulder broadly carinate. Spire low, outline concave to slightly sigmoid. Larval shell of 1.75-2.25 whorls, maximum diameter 1.1- 1.2 mm. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat, grading to deeply concave in late whorls, with obsolete spiral striae adaxially. Last whorl with a few weak, variably spaced spiral grooves near base.

Ground colour white, often suffused with pink. Last whorl with light or red-brown triangular spots to axial streaks and flames, usually somewhat concentrated below shoulder, at centre and above base, occasionally fusing into a partial network. Larval whorls white. Postnuclear sutural ramps with brown radial markings. Aperture pink, paler toward outer lip.

Periostracum straw-coloured, thin and translucent (Macpherson, 1959).

Habitat and Habits: Reported from 18 to 60 m.

Discussion: C. rufimaculosus cannot be mistaken for any of its congeners from the Indian and Pacific Ocean.

C. rufimaculosus 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.