Particularly those cone snails that prey on fish have to have toxins that can potently immobilize the fish prey before it swims away," says Safavi. The geography (or front-gilled) cone snail ...

Safavi says: "There are about 40 known fatalities by cone snails and nearly all — if not all — were caused by a single ...

The geography cone snail is indigenous to the reefs of the Indo-Pacific, grows to about 6 inches in length, and has ...

Venom is commonly measured by the LD50: the concentration of toxin (lethal dose, mg/kg) required to kill half of a test animal group. A smaller number indicates more concentrated venom, with the most ...

Safavi says: "There are about 40 known fatalities by cone snails and nearly all — if not all — were caused by a single species, Conus geographus, commonly known as the geography cone. Some of the ...

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