Range: Norfolk Id. to Wanganella Bank and Kermadec Is.

Description: Small, light to moderately light. Last whorl conical to broadly conical, sometimes ventricosely conical to broadly and ventricosely conical; outline slightly convex; left side slightly concave near base. Shoulder angulate, tuberculate. Spire of moderate height to high, stepped; outline straight to slightly concave. Larval shell of about 4 whorls, maximum diameter 1 - 1.1 mm. Postnuclear spire whorls tuberculate. Teleoconch sutural ramps concave with arcuate radial threads. Last whorl with strongly granulose spiral ribs and some intermittent smooth ribs.

Ground colour white to pink. Last whorl with 3 spiral bands of yellow to orange blotches leaving ground colour zones below shoulder, on both sides of centre and at base, and often with indistinct brown axial lines. Occasionally, orange blotches covering the entire last whorl except for some irregular ground colour spots. Postnuclear sutural ramps with sparse orange or yellow radial streaks or flecks. Aperture pale pink.

Periostracum yellowish brown, thin.

Habitat and Habits: In 40-295 m.

Discussion: C. raoulensis resembles the strongly sculptured variants of C. howelli. For comparison, see the Discussion of the latter species.

C. raoulensis 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.