Cone snail - Wikipedia
Cone snails are slow-moving, and use a venomous harpoon to disable faster-moving prey. The osphradium in cone snails is more specialized than in other groups of gastropods. It is through this sensory modality that cone snails are able to sense their prey.
Conidae - Wikipedia
Conidae, with the current common name of "cone snails", is a taxonomic family (previously subfamily) of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Conoidea. The 2014 classification of the superfamily Conoidea groups only cone snails in the family Conidae.
Cone Snail: A Slow but Highly Venomous Predator
2024年10月31日 · Cone snails are marine animals that harpoon their prey and incapacitate them with deadly toxins. They may be beautiful, but they are highly venomous.
How do cone snails shoot out a harpoon? - CK-12 Foundation
How do cone snails shoot out a harpoon? Flexi Says: The fish-hunting cone snail fires a harpoon-like tooth at prey. Venom on the tooth can stun fish. The snail launches the tooth by a strong, fast muscular contraction.
Caution: Killer Cone Snails - Ocean Conservancy
2024年1月12日 · Cone snails are stealthy when hunting prey and have a “harpoon-like” tooth called a radula that extends like a long, flexible tube and rapidly injects toxic venom. While the radula is most often used to hunt and paralyze fish and worms before consuming them, be cautious: Humans can be jabbed by stepping on or picking up a cone snail.
The Deadly Harpoons of Cone Snails - Smore Science Magazine
2024年12月5日 · Two of the deadliest cone snails are Conus geographus and Conus textile. Even with less than 100 deaths recorded, a cone snail’s strike is still dangerous to humans. One of the first signs of a sting is pain followed by acute inflammation, redness, and swelling.
Watch These Cunning Snails Stab and Swallow Fish Whole
2018年5月29日 · Cone snails launch their harpoons so quickly that scientists were previously unable to capture the movement on camera, making it impossible to calculate just how speedy these snails are. Now, using super-high-speed video, researchers have filmed the full flight of the harpoon for the first time.
Cone snail's strike is one of the quickest in the animal kingdom
2019年8月30日 · With the use of ultra-high-speed videography, biologists have shed light on the hunting mechanism of the cone snail Conus catus. The researchers identified the snail's hydraulically...
Cone of poison: The secret behind the cone snail's venom pump
2010年10月29日 · Scientists have discovered the secret of how an amazing sea snail injects its venom after shooting a harpoon-like tooth into its prey -- or some unlucky swimmer -- at jetliner speeds. The...
Cone of poison: The secret behind the cone snail's venom pump - Phys.org
2010年10月27日 · Scientists have discovered the secret of how an amazing sea snail injects its venom after shooting a harpoon-like tooth into its prey -- or some unlucky swimmer -- at jetliner speeds. The...