Being a very varied species-complex, there has been much confusion in the course of years about which species and subspecies to assign to the Conus cedonulli-complex, hence the number of synonyms named.

Vink proposed assigning the following species to the Conus cedonulli-complex along with Conus cedonulli :[3] The following subspecies of Conus cedonulli were recognized by the World Register of Marine Species: The color of the species in this complex is white to purplish grey although specimens from St. Vincent are very often dark-mahogany-brown, with some rare examples being 'black' or near-black.

Locus typicus: (restricted by Vink & vonCosel) St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles.

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea from Colombia to Trinidad, along the Lesser Antilles and along the Bahamas.

Offshore West coast Barbados, the species has been dredged at depths around 150 metres.