Cone Snail

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Cone Snail

• Conus Geographus

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Description

• A shell with bright or interesting patterns
• Long regular shell you can find on the beach
• Be careful dont pick them up!

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Classification

• Animalia
• Mollusca
• Gastropoda
• Sorbeoconcha
• Conidae
• Conus
• Geographus

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Habitat

• They live in the warm waters in the Indo Pacific
• They live around coral reefs in sand and on
  broken pieces of broken reef

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Feeding What it eats Cone snails eat worms,
small fish, and other mollusks How it eats It
waits for unsuspecting prey to come close enough,
then it strikes and harpoons the prey. Capturing
Prey They use a venomous harpoon called a
toxoglosson radula then it eats the prey.
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Special characteristics

• Cone snails have a harpoon on the tip of its
  tongue.
• The cone snails harpoon can go through gloves and
  wet suits.
• Cone snails can cause severe paralysis in humans.
• They also cause respiratory failure.

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Other interesting information

• 30 human deaths have occurred from cone snails.
• The bright colors interest people in collecting
  the shells of the cone snails.
• The magician cone snails venom shows promise for
  providing a non addictive pain reliever 1,000
  times as strong and possibly replaceable for
  morphine.

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Picture
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Bibliography

• www.answers.com/topic/conesnail
• www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/10/016_031016
  _cone
• www.mpiemgwdgde/user/terlu/cones/conus.html
• www.animals.jrank.org/pages/1897/sea-slug-snails.l
  impets-gastopods-geographycone.she-conus-geographu
  s

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