Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 120 mm. The shell has a light flesh-color. The spire is gently acuminate. The earlier whorls are tuberculated. The body whorl is pyriform. The outline is concave below, with revolving striae towards the base.[3]
^Hinds, R. B., 1843. Descriptions of new shells from the collection of Captain Sir Edward Belcher. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 11: 255 -257