Conus jourdani

The maximum recorded shell length is 30.2 mm.^[2] The shell is moderately small, solid, compact, broad, and ventricosly conical shell. The sides of the last whorl are straight and convex below the shoulder, which is rounded. The spire is moderately elevated with a straight profile. The surface of the last whorl is smooth above the base. The spiral whorls are usually convex, covered with very fine arcuate radial hairlines. Cords are absent while the protoconch is assumed to be paucispiral. The colour of the shell is bluish-white with a variable number of patterned zones below the shoulder. The spire whorls usually exhibit brown or orange-brown blotches. The aperture is purplish-white in the inside, with the internal margin of the lip stained purple interrupted by two narrow white bands, one at the shoulder and the other at the lower third. The periostracum is pale yellow and translucent. The opurculum is small and elongated typical of a varioconus.^[3]

• Tucker J.K. & Tenorio M.J. (2009) Systematic classification of Recent and fossil conoidean gastropods. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 296 pp.
• 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: 1–23

• The Conus Biodiversity website
• "Varioconus jourdani". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

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