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Sea slugs & snails

Geographer Cone

Conus geographus

Also known as: Cigarette Snail, Cone, Cone Shell, Cone Snail, Geography Cone, Geographic Cone Snail

VenomousKeep your distance
Adult
@feveleen · marsa alam, Egypt · June 20221 / 1
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Overview

Found during the day in sediment, over rubble and sand of shallow coral reefs.
They feed nocturnally on fish.

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.
NO ANTI-VENOM.

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How to identify

Body shape
shellsskin tags
Behaviour
nocturnal

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indo-Pacific
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Found during the day in sediment, over rubble and sand of shallow coral reefs.

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Adult photos 1

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    Taxonomy

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

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    More in the family

    Sea Snails (Conidae)