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The textile cone its common name, 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 across the shores of Australia.

The Textile cone are predatory and venomous. They have been known to sting humans, live ones should be handled carefully or not at all. Based on a report in 2004, about 30 human deaths were attributed to cone snail stings.

The average length of adult textile cones is about 3 1/2 to 4 inches. The maximum shell length for this species is about 6 inches. The color of the shell is yellowish brown, with undulating longitudinal lines of chocolate, interrupted by triangular white spaces. These last are irregularly disposed, but crowded at the shoulder, base and middle so as to form bands. The spire is similarly marked. The aperture is white.

A spire is a part of the coiled shell of molluscs. The spire consists of all of the whorls except for the body whorl. Each spire whorl represents a rotation of 360°.

The aperture is an opening in certain kinds of mollusc shells: it is the main opening of the shell, where the head-foot part of the body of the animal emerges for locomotion, feeding, etc

The female textile cone lays several hundred eggs at a time, which hatch after about 16 or 17 days. After hatching, the larvae float around in the current for approximately 16 days. Afterward, they settle at the bottom of the ocean. By this point their length is about 1/4 inch.

Textile Cones are a carnivorous species, and use a radula (a biological microscopic needle) to inject a conotoxin to kill its prey. The preferred prey are snails. The proboscis, the tip of which holds the harpoon-like radular tooth, is capable of being extended to any part of its own shell. The living animal is a risk to any person handling it who has not taken proper care to protect exposed skin. Several human deaths have been attributed to this species.

The radula is an anatomical structure used by mollusks for feeding, sometimes compared to a tongue. It is a minutely toothed, chitinous ribbon, which is typically used for scraping or cutting food before the food enters the esophagus. The radula is unique to the mollusks, and is found in every class of mollusk except the bivalves, which instead use cilia, waving filaments that bring minute organisms to the mouth.

A conotoxin is one of a group of neurotoxic peptides isolated from the venom of the marine cone snail, genus Conus. Neurotoxicity is a form of toxicity in which a biological, chemical, or physical agent produces an adverse effect on the structure or function of the central and/or peripheral nervous system.

A proboscis is an elongated appendage from the head of an animal, either a vertebrate or an invertebrate. In invertebrates (Textile Cones), the term usually refers to tubular mouthparts used for feeding and sucking. In vertebrates, a proboscis is an elongated nose or snout.

Scientific classification

Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Mollusca

Class: Gastropoda

Subclass: Caenogastropoda

Order: Neogastropoda

Superfamily: Conoidea

Family: Conidae

Genus: Conus

Species: Conus textile

Binomial name: Conus textile

Linnaeus, 1758

(REF: Duda, T. (2013). "Conus textile". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T192316A2071675. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T192316A2071675.en)(REF: "World Register of Marine Species". Conus textile Linnaeus, 1758. 2009 )(REF: "Conus textile". Archived from the original on July 17, 2003. Retrieved August 19, 2016)(REF: Peters, Howard; O'Leary, Bethan C.; Hawkins, Julie P.; Carpenter, Kent E.; Roberts, Callum M. (2013-12-23). "Conus: First Comprehensive Conservation Red List Assessment of a Marine Gastropod Mollusc Genus". PLOS ONE. 8 (12)(REF: Poutiers, J. M. (1998). "Gastropods". In Carpenter, K. E. (ed.). The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific (PDF). FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes. Vol. 1. Rome)(REF: Stephen Coombes (February 2009). "The Geometry and Pigmentation of Seashells)(REF:George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI )(REF: Online Learning Center: Textile Cone Snail". Aquarium of the Pacific. Archived from the original on 2012-02-07)(REF: Conus textile Linnaeus, 1758. Textile cone, )