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    Cone snails, or cones, are highly venomous sea snails of the family Conidae. Fossils of cone snails have been found from the Eocene to the Holocene epochs...
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    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...
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    Conidae (redirect from Cone Shell)
    with the current common name of "cone snails", is a taxonomic family (previously subfamily) of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the...
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  • back of some sort of sea critter. Each one is the beach-worn apex of a cone snail. Puka is the Hawaiian word for "hole" and refers to the naturally occurring...
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    Conus (redirect from Cone shell)
    and predatory sea snails, or cone snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae. Prior to 2009, it included all cone snail species but is now...
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    2015). "Specialized insulin is used for chemical warfare by fish-hunting cone snails". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (6): 1743–1748...
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    "marbled cone", is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones. It is the...
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    45–46. Concar, D. (19 October 1996). "Doctor snail—Lethal to fish and sometimes even humans, cone snail venom contains a pharmacopoeia of precision drugs"...
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  • cone snail (Conus catus) ballistic movement can be seen in the way that it fires is harpoon-like radular tooth into its prey. After the cone snail’s proboscis...
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    textile cone or the cloth of gold cone is a venomous species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells...
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  • and/or exposure to digestive enzymes. Only cannibalistic sea slugs, snail-eating cone shells of the taxon Coninae, and some sea anemones use this method...
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    Glory of the Sea Cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones. It is commonly...
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  • Cone snail is a generic term referring to a number of different genera and families of sea snails with conical shells. Conus, a large genus of small to...
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    amelioration of severe and chronic pain. Derived from Conus magus, a cone snail, it is the synthetic form of an ω-conotoxin peptide. It is 1,000 times...
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    Paladin cone snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones. This snail is predatory...
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    a pattern resembling Rule 30 appears on the shell of the widespread cone snail species Conus textile. Rule 30 has also been used as a random number generator...
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    in purpose and mechanism, and can be highly complex (the venom of the cone snail can contain over 100 unique peptides, which target specific nerve channels...
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    life span is 2.0 to 2.5 years. Predators of this snail include carnivorous gastropods such as cone snails and volutes. It is also a prey species for vertebrates...
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  • Look up cone or coning in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A cone is a basic geometrical shape. Cone may also refer to: Cone (category theory) Cone (formal...
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    Geography & imperial cone snail, pond snail, sea hare, leech Cys-Ile-Ile-Arg-Asn-Cys-Pro-Arg-Gly-NH2 Arg-Connopressin Striped cone snail...
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    Conotoxin (category Snail toxins)
    a group of neurotoxic peptides isolated from the venom of the marine cone snail, genus Conus. Conotoxins, which are peptides consisting of 10 to 30 amino...
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  • Coffee cone may refer to: Coffee cone (filter), a conical coffee filter holder Conus coffeae, the common name for a sea snail This disambiguation page...
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    coffeae, common name the coffee cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. Like all...
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    the feathered cone or the episcopal cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies...
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    Conus striatus (redirect from Striated cone)
    striated cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. These snails are predatory...
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    cone, is a species of small, predatory sea snail in the family Conidae, the cone snails. As both the scientific and common names suggest, this cone is...
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    the black-and-white cone or Hebrew cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies....
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  • Thumbnail for Conus tulipa
    tulipa, common name the tulip cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. Like all...
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  • sample. This is complicated further when there are some animals (I.e. Cone snails) that can change the complexity and make-up of their venom depending...
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    latrodectism Recluse spider loxoscelism Millipede Bristleworm Cephalopod Cone snail Coral Hydroid Portuguese man-of-war Jellyfish Leech Sea anemone Sea urchin...
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