Geography Cone
Conus geographus · Mollusc
A cone snail of the Indo-Pacific reefs, from the Red Sea and East Africa to Australia but not Hawaii, its thin shell 4 to 17 cm long, pinkish white mottled with chestnut and prized by shell collectors. It lies in the sediment of shallow reefs and hunts small fish, firing a venom-tipped harpoon tooth from its proboscis. Its sting is the most toxic of all cone snails, with about 36 human deaths reported in 300 years; there is no antivenom, only keeping the victim alive until the venom wears off, and its nickname, the cigarette snail, exaggerates: death takes one to five hours.
- Danger
- Man-killer
- How it is met
- Alone, day and night
- Size
- Tiny
- In winter
- Active in winter
Where it lives
Sources
Open it in Biomes — MGS Toolbox