Conus textile
Conus textile, the 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 or cones. Textile cone snails live mostly in the Indian Ocean, along the eastern coast of Africa and around Australia. Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all. Based on a report in 2004, about 30 human deaths have been attributed to cone snails. In 2021, a teen nearly died after picking up a live textile cone. List of synonyms Conus (Cylinder) textile Linnaeus, 1758 · accepted, alternate representation Conus archiepiscopus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 Conus cholmondeleyi Melvill, 1900 Conus communis Swainson, 1840 Cylinder concatenatus Kiener, 1845 Conus corbula G. B. Sowerby II, 1858 Conus dilectus Gould, 1850 Conus euetrios G. B. Sowerby III, 1882 Conus eumitus Tomlin, 1926 Conus panniculus Lamarck, 1810 Conus reteaureum Perry, 1811 Conus sirventi Fenaux, 1943 Conus suzannae van Rossum, 1990 Conus textile archiepiscopus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 Conus textile dahlakensis da Motta, 1982 Conus textile var. euetrios G. B. Sowerby III