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Cone snail. Cone snails, or cones, are highly venomous sea snails of the family Conidae. [1] Fossils of cone snails have been found from the Eocene to the Holocene epochs. [2] Cone snail species have shells that are roughly conical in shape. Many species have colorful patterning on the shell surface. [3] Cone snails are almost exclusively ...
Gastridium geographus (Linnaeus, 1758 ) Conus geographus, popularly called the geography cone or the geographer cone, is a species of predatory cone snail. It lives in reefs of the tropical Indo-Pacific, and hunts small fish. While all cone snails hunt and kill prey using venom, the venom of Conus geographus is potent enough to kill humans.
Conus textile, the textile cone or the cloth of gold cone [3] is a venomous species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones. Textile cone snails live mostly in the Indian Ocean, along the eastern coast of Africa and around Australia. [4] Like all species within the genus Conus, these ...
Conidae. Conidae, with the current common name of "cone snails", is a taxonomic family (previously subfamily) of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Conoidea. The 2014 classification of the superfamily Conoidea groups only cone snails in the family Conidae. Some previous classifications grouped the cone snails in ...
Biochemist. Awards. National Scientist of the Philippines. Lourdes J. Cruz (born May 19, 1942) is a Filipino biochemist whose research has contributed to the understanding of the biochemistry of toxic peptides from the venom of fish-hunting Conus marine snails. [1] Throughout the Philippines, she is known as the Sea Snail Venom Specialist.[2]
Synonyms [ 1] List. Fossil Conus pelagicus from the Pliocene of Cyprus. Conus is a genus of venomous and predatory sea snails, or cone snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae. [ 1] Prior to 2009, it included all cone snail species but is now more precisely defined, as are other cone snail genera.
Hermes striatus (Linnaeus, 1758) Pionoconus striatus (Linnaeus, 1758) Conus striatus, common name the striated cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. [ 3] These snails are predatory and venomous. While they are piscivorous (eat fishes), they are capable of "stinging ...
Tenorioconus sanguineus (Kiener, 1850) Conus sanguineus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones. [1] These snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans. Commonly, they are known as cone snails.