Conus gubernator leehmani: Shell cream-colored, solid and turbinate, with a depressed spire consisting of eleven whorls, the earlier seven being conic shaped with a sharp apical point, sloping down to four flattened and wider, deeply channeled whorls, having about five fine threads to each volution, all marked with reddish-brown worm-like maculations in a radial pattern, excepting the penultimate whorl, when it changes to chocolate-brown, overflowing, in places, onto the shoulder, which bulges out well-rounded into sides which are straight. The body surface is smooth, but is finely striated, more pronounced longitudinally. It has two belts of fawn superimposed with irregular figurations of chocolate-brown, in between three plain dividing areas of cream with some patches of fawn. Obsolete spiral incisions at its base are noticeable only on very close examination. The aperture is porcelaneous-white and narrow, beginning from the posterior end but very gradually widening towards the base.
Holotype:
Length 65.3 mm; width 34 mm, specimen will remain in the first author's custody pending establishment of the International Conidae Society Museum, where it will then be lodged.