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Sea slugs & snails

Conus sp.

Conus

Also known as: Cones, Cone Shell, Cone Snail

Egg
@JarJar · El Queseir, Flamencon beach, Egypt · October 20121 / 1
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Overview

Found under dead corals during the day, coming out to hunt at night, over mud, gravel, and sandy areas, of coral and rocky reefs.

Conids have smooth cone shaped shells often very colourful.
They kill their prey by discharging their proboscis at great speed like a harpoon, then a venom is released and so paralysing their victim.
Extremely venomous to humans, may cause death, should not be handled.

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How to identify

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indo-Pacific
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Found under dead corals during the day, coming out to hunt at night, over mud, gravel, and sandy areas, of coral and rocky reefs.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumMollusca
    3. classGastropoda
    4. orderNeogastropoda
    5. familyConidae
    6. genusConus Linnaeus, 1758

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    More in the family

    Sea Snails (Conidae)