Turris condei Vera-Peláez, Vega-Luz & Lozano-Francisco, 2000

Plate 9, figs A–F

Turris condei Vera-Peláez, Vega-Luz, & Lozano-Francisco, 2000: 8, pl. 1, fig. 6 (protoconch), pl. 2, fig. 15 (anal sinus), pl. 18, figs 1–8 (type loc. Laing Is., Hansa Bay, Papua New Guinea).

DESCRIPTION (based on Mozambique examples): Shell as in Turris hidalgoi, but siphonal rostrum broader in adults, sinus cord is more shallowly bifid and is shouldered above, intervals between upper spiral cords with 2–3 fine spiral threads, crossed by fine axial threads.

Greyish-white, intervals between spiral cords brownish-white, spiral cords dotted with dark brown, larger on peripheral cord; subsutural region with rectangles of dark brown (the thin subsutural cord darker), separated by equal-sized rectangles of white; base of last whorl with a broad transverse blotch of dark brown, crossed by whiteflecked spiral threads, each side of the blotch rendered serrated by spots on the adjacent ridges.

TYPES: T. condei: Holotype MNCN 15.05/39976; paratype No. 4 NMSA L5620, 10 other paratypes in private collections .

DISTRIBUTION: Northern Mozambique to Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, in 3–80 m, sand, stones and dead coral (Vera-Peláez, et al. 2000).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: NORTHERN MOZAMBIQUE: Nacala Bay, 12 m, and 5–8 m (BO colln). SOLOMON IS.: Guadalcanal Is., Honiara (NMSA L5620: J. Conde); NEW CALEDONIA: 20°46.5’S, 167°06.2’E, 25–45m (MNHN); 20°55.5’S, 167°04.2’E, 10–30m (MNHN); VANUATU: Expedition “SANTO”, Stn. DR9; 15°57.69’S, 167°22.96’E, 12 m (MNHN); Stn. FB80: 15°55.08’S, 167°16.04’E, 2–45 m (MNHN) .

REMARKS: Essentially very similar to T. hidalgoi, but colour pattern over most of surface flecked, instead of strongly spotted and blotched; the broad dark blotch on the base of that species bears scattered spots (not spiral lines of flecks as in T. condei); the intervals between the spiral cords are glossier in hidalgoi and more pliculate, rather than dull and obliquely microcancellate.