Range: Gulf of Aden.

Description: Moderately small to medium-sized, moderately solid. Last whorl conical to ventricosely conical or slightly pyriform; outline slightly to moderately convex, occasionally concave above base. Base of columella with a weak or distinct posterior plication. Shoulder angulate and tuberculate. Spire of moderate height, stepped; outline concave to straight. Larval shell of about 2 whorls, maximum diameter about 1.4 mm. Postnuclear spire whorls tuberculate. Teleconch sutural ramps flat, with 1-2 subsutural spiral grooves; spiral grooves weak on last 2-3 ramps. Last whorl with faint spiral ribs at base.

Ground colour white. Last whorl either covered with a coarse network of light brown to orange-brown lines edging small to medium-sized tents, or banded with orange red to orangish brown reticulate lines and triangular spots forming 3 spiral zones below shoulder and on both sides of centre. Larval whorls white. Teleoconch sutural ramps with occasionally sparse orange-red spots or radial lines. Aperture white or pale pinkish violet deep within.

Habitat and Habits: In about 60 m.

Discussion: C. danilai resembles C. hamamotoi. For comparison, see the DISCUSSION of that species.

C. danilai 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.