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Textile cone
Conus textile
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 215529, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Textile cone
- Scientific
- Conus textile
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Cone snails
- Family
- Conidae (cone snails)
- Maximum size
- Up to about 15 cm (shell length)
- Depth and habitat
- Sea floor (benthic), recorded from 0 to 10 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2011
Description
The textile cone has a shell covered in a fine pattern of white tent-like triangles on yellow and brown, with darker bands. It hunts other snails with a powerful venom and has caused human deaths. It must never be handled.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=7); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=1).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Conus-textile.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215529
- inaturalist.org /taxa/56719
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Textile_cone.JPG
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.