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Sea slugs & snails

Striate Cone

Conus striatus

Also known as: Cone, Cone Shell, Cone Snail, Striated Cone, Striated Cone Shell

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2026
VenomousKeep your distance
Adult
@fishx6 · Mirihi, Maldives · May 20081 / 1
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Overview

Found during the day under dead corals, on sandy areas, emerging at night, hunting for food over shallow reef areas.
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

COLOURS
Body shape
shells
Behaviour
nocturnal

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indo-Pacific
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Found during the day under dead corals, on sandy areas, emerging at night, hunting for food over shallow reef areas.

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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 striatus Linnaeus, 1758

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    More in the family

    Sea Snails (Conidae)