Cone snail

Cone snails, cone shells or cones are common names for a large group of small to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs. Until recently, over 600 species of cone snails were all classified under one genus, Conus, in one family, the Conidae. However, in recent years it was suggested both that cone snails should occupy only a subfamily, and that cone snails be split into a very large number of genera.

A 2014 paper attempted to stabilize a newer classification of the group, significantly reducing the number of new genera, but keeping a fairly large number of subgenera. Although the taxonomy has changed significantly several times during recent years, in the current (2015) version of the taxonomy of these snails and their close relatives, cone snails once again comprise the entire family Conidae.

Geologically speaking, fossils of cone snails are known from the Eocene to the Holocene epochs. Cone snail species have shells that are shaped more or less like geometric cones. Many species have colorful patterning on the shell surface. Cone snails are almost all tropical in distribution.

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Museum acquires a shell of a collection

The Capital Journal 22 Aug 2018

Calvert Marine Museum’s recently acquired seashell collection contains such specimens as Cyphrae, Murex, Strombus and moon snails ... The collection includes a very large cone snail ... Calvert Marine Museum’s recently acquired seashell collection contains such specimens as Cyphrae, Murex, Strombus and moon snails ... The collection includes a very large cone snail....

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Miscommunication

Messenger-Inquirer 24 Jul 2018

When Meghan Cruz says "Hey, Alexa," her Amazon smart speaker bursts to life, offering the kind of helpful response she now expects from her automated assistant. With a few words in her breezy West Coast accent, the lab technician in Vancouver gets Alexa to tell her the weather in Berlin (70 degrees), the world's most poisonous animal (a geography cone snail) and the square root of 128, which it offers to the ninth decimal place ... ....

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Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home show accent bias, with Chinese and Spanish hardest to understand

South China Morning Post 23 Jul 2018

With a few words in her breezy, North American West Coast accent, the Vancouver-based lab technician based gets Alexa to tell her the temperature in Berlin (70 degrees Fahrenheit, or 21 degrees Celsius), the world’s most poisonous animal (a geography cone snail) and the square root of 128, which it offers to the ninth... ....

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Why some accents don't work on Alexa or Google Home

Atlantic City 20 Jul 2018

When Meghan Cruz says “Hey, Alexa,” her Amazon smart speaker bursts to life, offering the kind of helpful response she now expects from her automated assistant. With a few words in her breezy West Coast accent, the lab technician in Vancouver gets Alexa to tell her the weather in Berlin (70 degrees), the world’s most poisonous animal (a geography cone snail) and the square root of 128, which it offers to the ninth decimal place ... ... ....

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Audubon awards an 'A' to Gloucester author

Gloucester Times 21 Jun 2018

... people to reconsider the ocean as critical to our health as the source of some of biomedical science’s newest and best frontiers for cures, elevating the lowly horse shoes crab to a position of potential for pharmaceutical science, and enlightening us as to how cone snails, which live in coral reefs, are a source of as nonaddictive pain treatment....

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New species among rare treasure trove of fossils found in California

WPTV 20 May 2018

(CNN) -- Finding fossils can be a fact of life for construction crews excavating in California. That's what happened when crews broke ground to begin the new Bay Area Calaveras Dam in 2013. They just didn't expect to find so many ... That was a complete surprise." ... Among the finds were numerous fossilized palm trees and pine cones, hundreds of invertebrates including snails and crabs, shark teeth and whale skulls ... The-CNN-Wire ... ....

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Recreation report, May 17

The Roseburg News-Review 18 May 2018

Enjoy free fishing and clamming ... It’s not too late to get your bird ... Best bets for weekend fishing ... 30 ... Other tracks at the edges of the waterline are made by olive snails, which plow through the sand in search of food ... Did you know that barnacles can live up to 10-15 years, or that limpets (cone-shaped snails) are some of the most important grazers on rocky shores? Take care to minimize your impact as you explore Oregon’s rocky shores....

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The secret life of the Queensland Museum

Sydney Morning Herald 24 Mar 2018

While the levels downstairs bustle with crowds swarming to exhibits, a secret and quieter world exists upstairs at the Queensland Museum ... A glimpse into the private areas of the Queensland Museum, where animal specimens are stored.Photo. Supplied ... Other scientists have approached the museum for their data on cone snail locations, so its venom can be used to design new drug therapies ... ....

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Nuclear war may not kill cockroaches, but the toxin from this 55-metre worm can

Sydney Morning Herald 22 Mar 2018

first published at 12.00am. While there is hot debate around whether cockroaches could survive a nuclear war, a sure bet is that they could not survive the toxin from a bootlace worm ... Lineus longissimus, also known as the bootlace worm.Photo. Supplied ... The bootlace worm's toxin possesses similarities to that of a cone snail, which has already been used to design painkillers, according to Dr Rosengren ... ....

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Prospecting for Painkillers

The Scientist 02 Jan 2018

Cone snail venom researcher Mandë Holford discusses the therapeutic potential of toxins found in animals ... ....

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Novel Analgesics at a Snails Pace

The Scientist 01 Jan 2018

Studying cone snail venom has yielded novel pain pathways, but the peptides that function as toxins are difficult to translate into drugs ... ....

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U. gets $10 million to study mollusk venom as opioid alternative

Deseret News 03 Dec 2017

"Then either the products from the snails or the snails themselves are shipped to us for examination," he said ... scientists published research suggesting there were encouraging properties of the venom produced by a small marine cone snail called Conus regius, saying it appeared not only to neutralize pain in rodents but also provide increased protection against the worsening of chronic pain....

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Could snail venom replace addictive opioid painkillers? Utah researchers are getting $10 million to find out

The Salt Lake Tribune 29 Nov 2017

this week said it has received $10 million from the Department of Defense to further study cone snail venom and search for similar compounds from the venom of other marine organisms ... researcher, Baldomero Olivera, have isolated and studied portions of the cone snail venom for decades....

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