Conus fragilissimus, common name the fragile geography cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
Description
Original description: "Shell extremely thin, fragile, translucent, glossy; outline ovately cylindrical; sides convex, tapering to the anterior end; shoulder wide, angled, with prominent coronations; spire high, stepped, somewhat scalariform; spire sculpture consisting of 4-6 fine revolving spiral threads; aperture wide, flaring; color pale tan with longitudinal brown flammules, flammules often coalescing into large brown patches; base color pattern overlaid with variable amounts of dots, dashes, and netlike pattern; spire color pale tan with regularly spaced dark brown flammules; protoconch and early whorls dark brown; shoulder coronations white; aperture white; periostracum smooth, translucent yellow; operculum unknown." The size of the shell varies between 26 mm and 50 mm. ==Distribution==
Distribution
Locus typicus: "3 metres depth, off South coast of Harmil Isl., Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea Province, Ethiopia." This species occurs in the Red Sea and off Ethiopia. ==Etymology==
Etymology
"In reference to the almost paper thinness of the shell." ==References==