A textile cone hunts other snails. Its proboscis contains a harpoon, loaded with a powerful venom called conotoxin. It paralyzes its prey so it can be sucked from its shell and devoured. Other cone shells have developed a venom that’s effective for hunting vertebrates, like fish.
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that was a striated cone
you should identify it accurately
it is not geographus
In the first sequence involving envenomation of a small mollusc the attacking cone shell looks like Conus textile. In the second sequence involving envenomation of a small fish, the attacking cone shell appears to be Conus striatus