Range: Philippines to South China Sea.
Description: Medium-sized to large, moderately solid to moderately heavy. Last whorl narrowly conical to conical; outline somewhat convex below shoulder then straight. Shoulder angulate to sharply angulate. Spire low, outline usually sigmoid. Larval shell of about 3.5 whorls, maximum diameter about 1.0 mm. First 5-7 postnuclear whorls tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps flat to slightly concave, with 2 increasing to 3-4 spiral grooves, turning into many striae in late whorls. Last whorl with sometimes weak to obsolete, variably spaced, fine spiral ribs from base to shoulder, weaker in larger specimens, in particular above centre.
| Shell Morphometry | ||
|---|---|---|
| L | 50-116 mm | |
| RW | 0.25-0.90 g/mm | |
| (L 50-106 mm) | ||
| RD | 0.47-0.52 | |
| PMD | 0.87-0.96 | |
| RSH | 0.01-0.08 | |
Colour yellowish orange to orange or violet; some of these tones may merge. Last whorl often with a paler spiral band at or just below centre. Larval whorls white to orange cream. Early postnuclear sutural ramps white to light orange; later ramps match last whorl in colour shades. Aperture white, shaded with violet in smaller specimens.
Periostracum brown, of varying thickness, opaque, smooth, or with interlaced axial ridges.
Habitat and Habits: Reported from 100-400 m.
Discussion: C. kintoki closely resembles C. berdulinus, which can be distinguished by its broader, somewhat more ventricose and smoother last whorl (RD 0.51-0.59; PMD 0.83-0.90), less angulate shoulder, and its only weakly tuberculate early postnuclear whorls. C. coelinae is heavier than C. kintoki specimens of similar size, has a broader last whorl (RD 0.53- 0.63), and is yellowish white with a violet or yellow base. The validity of the name C. kintoki Habe & Kosuge, formerly disputed, has been established by Emerson (1984).
C. kintoki 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.