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Conus leopardus, commonly known as the leopard cone, is a species of predatory sea snail.

These are predatory sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones. Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous.

Conus Leopardus can be found across the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Chagos, Madagascar, the Mascarene basin, Mauritius and Tanzania; in the entire Indo-Pacific Region; off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).

The adult shell size varies between 2 to 8 3/4 inches.

Scientific classification

Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Mollusca

Class: Gastropoda

Subclass: Caenogastropoda

Order: Neogastropoda

Superfamily: Conoidea

Family: Conidae

Genus: Conus

Species: Conus leopardus

Binomial name: Conus leopardus

(Röding, 1798)

(REF:Röding, P. F., 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus Cimeliorum e Tribus Regnis Naturae Quae olim Collegerat Joa.., 2: I-VIII:)

(REF: WoRMS (2010). Conus leopardus (Röding, 1798). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species)

(REF:Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015). One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81)