Conus Geographicus, Geographic Cone Conus 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, and hunts small fish. While all cone snails hunt and kill prey using venom, the venom of conus geographus is potent enough to kill humans. Coloured Plate from ' The Naturalist's repository, or, Monthly miscellany of exotic natural history by Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837 Volume 4 1826 Consisting of elegantly coloured plates with appropriate scientific and general directions of the most curious,
Conus Geographicus, Geographic Cone Conus 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, and hunts small fish. While all cone snails hunt and kill prey using venom, the venom of conus geographus is potent enough to kill humans. Coloured Plate from ' The Naturalist's repository, or, Monthly miscellany of exotic natural history by Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837 Volume 4 1826 Consisting of elegantly coloured plates with appropriate scientific and general directions of the most curious, scarce, and beautiful productions of nature that have been recently discovered in various parts of the world the latest improvements in the various department of science most important discoveries of quadrupeds, birds, fishes,insects, shells, marine productions, and every other interesting object of natural history.
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