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Cone snail

Index Cone snail

Cone snails, cone shells, or cones are common names for a large group of small to large-sized extremely venomous predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs. [1]

77 relations: Amino acid, Baía da Parda, Baldomero Olivera, Caenogastropoda, Catanduanes, Cellular automaton, Conasprella jaspidea, Conasprella lucida, Conasprella mazei, Conasprella mcgintyi, Cone (disambiguation), Cone snail (disambiguation), Conidae, Conilithidae, Conomurex luhuanus, Conotoxin, Contryphan, Conus, Conus achatinus, Conus amphiurgus, Conus aulicus, Conus aureonimbosus, Conus bruuni, Conus furvus, Conus generalis, Conus kinoshitai, Conus leopardus, Conus lienardi, Conus lischkeanus, Conus litoglyphus, Conus litteratus, Conus lividus, Conus luteus, Conus lynceus, Conus madecassinus, Conus magnificus, Conus marmoreus, Conus monile, Conus nanus, Conus sanguinolentus, Conus stercusmuscarum, Conus striolatus, Conus xanthicus, Conus zeylanicus, Coral Sea, Covalitoxin-II, Dendrotoxin, Evolution of snake venom, Fauna of Australia, Great Barrier Reef, ..., Hans Hass, Hebomoia glaucippe, Insulin, Ion channel, Lady Robinsons Beach, Laevistrombus canarium, List of Conus species, List of The Future Is Wild episodes, List of The Octonauts episodes, Love dart, Meiacanthus grammistes, Mollusca, Molluscs in culture, Neogastropoda, Odontophore, Periostracum, Peripheral membrane protein, Pygmaeconus, Sea Patrol (season 4), Takifugu, Tarava seamounts, Toxin, Toxinology, Vasopressin, Venom, Venoms in medicine, Ziconotide. Expand index (27 more) »

Amino acid

Amino acids are organic compounds containing amine (-NH2) and carboxyl (-COOH) functional groups, along with a side chain (R group) specific to each amino acid.

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Baía da Parda

Baía da Parda (Portuguese for Shark Bay), also simply known as Parda is a small and wide bay on the east coast of the island of Sal in Cape Verde about 3 km south of Pedra de Lume, about 4 km ESE of the island capital of Espargos and due east of Amílcar Cabral International Airport, the island's airport.

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Baldomero Olivera

Baldomero Olivera (born 1941) is a Filipino American chemist known for discovery of many cone snail toxins important for neuroscience.

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Caenogastropoda

Caenogastropoda (from Ancient Greek caeno- meaning "recent") is a taxonomic clade, a large diverse group which are mostly sea snails and other marine gastropod mollusks, but also includes some freshwater snails and some land snails.

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Catanduanes

Catanduanes is an island province located in the Bicol Region of Luzon in the Philippines.

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Cellular automaton

A cellular automaton (pl. cellular automata, abbrev. CA) is a discrete model studied in computer science, mathematics, physics, complexity science, theoretical biology and microstructure modeling.

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Conasprella jaspidea

Conasprella jaspidea, common name the Jasper cone, is a species of sea snail, a small cone snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

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Conasprella lucida

Conasprella lucida is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

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Conasprella mazei

Conasprella mazei, common name Maze's cone, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

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Conasprella mcgintyi

Conasprella mcgintyi is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

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Cone (disambiguation)

A cone is a basic geometrical shape.

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Cone snail (disambiguation)

Cone snail is a generic term referring to a number of different genera and families of sea snails with conical shells.

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Conidae

Conidae (also previously referred to as Coninae), with the current common name of "cone snails," is a taxonomic family (previously subfamily) of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Conoidea.

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Conilithidae

Conilithidae is a proposed taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, specifically cone snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea, the cone snails and their allies.

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Conomurex luhuanus

Conomurex luhuanus, common name Strawberry conch or Tiger conch, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.

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Conotoxin

A conotoxin is one of a group of neurotoxic peptides isolated from the venom of the marine cone snail, genus Conus.

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Contryphan

The contryphans (conus + tryptophan) are a family of peptides that are active constituents of the potent venom produced by cone snail (genus conus).

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Conus

Conus is a genus of predatory sea snails, or cone snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Conus Linnaeus, 1758. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p.

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Conus achatinus

Conus achatinus, common name the turtle cone or the agate cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

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Conus amphiurgus

Conus amphiurgus, common name the amphiurgus cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

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Conus aulicus

Conus aulicus, common name the princely cone, is a species of a predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

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Conus aureonimbosus

Conus aureonimbosus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

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Conus bruuni

Conus bruuni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

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Conus furvus

Conus furvus, common name the dark cone, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

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Conus generalis

Conus generalis, common name the general cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

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Conus kinoshitai

Conus kinoshitai, common name Kinoshita's cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

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Conus leopardus

Conus leopardus, common name the leopard cone, is a species of a predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

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Conus lienardi

Conus lienardi or Lienard's cone is a species of sophisticated predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

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Conus lischkeanus

Conus lischkeanus, the Lischke's cone, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

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Conus litoglyphus

Conus litoglyphus, common name the lithograph cone, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, more popularly known as a cone snail, cone shell or cone.

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Conus litteratus

Conus litteratus, common name the lettered cone, is a species of sophisticated predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snail, cone shells or cones.

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Conus lividus

Conus lividus, common name the livid cone, is a species of sophisticated predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

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Conus luteus

Conus luteus, the mud cone, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

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Conus lynceus

Conus lynceus, the lynceus cone, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

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Conus madecassinus

Conus madecassinus is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

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Conus magnificus

Conus magnificus, common name the "magnificent cone", is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

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Conus marmoreus

Conus marmoreus, common name the "marbled cone", is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

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Conus monile

Conus monile, common name the necklace cone, is a species of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

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Conus nanus

Conus nanus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

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Conus sanguinolentus

Conus sanguinolentus, common name the blood-stained cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

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Conus stercusmuscarum

Conus stercusmuscarum, common name the fly-specked cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

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Conus striolatus

Conus striolatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

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Conus xanthicus

Conus xanthicus, common name the Guaymas cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

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Conus zeylanicus

Conus zeylanicus, common name the obese cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

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Coral Sea

The Coral Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an interim Australian bioregion.

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Covalitoxin-II

Covalitoxin-II is a peptide toxin that is produced by the spider Coremiocnemis validus.

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Dendrotoxin

Dendrotoxins are a class of presynaptic neurotoxins produced by mamba snakes (Dendroaspis) that block particular subtypes of voltage-gated potassium channels in neurons, thereby enhancing the release of acetylcholine at neuromuscular junctions.

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Evolution of snake venom

Venom in snakes and some lizards is a form of saliva that has been modified into venom over its evolutionary history.

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Fauna of Australia

The fauna of Australia consists of a huge variety of animals; some 83% of mammals, 89% of reptiles, 24% of fish and insects and 93% of amphibians that inhabit the continent are endemic to Australia.

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Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately.

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Hans Hass

Hans Hass (23 January 1919 – 16 June 2013) was an Austrian biologist and underwater diving pioneer.

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Hebomoia glaucippe

Hebomoia glaucippe, the great orange-tip, is a butterfly belonging to the family Pieridae, that is the yellows and whites.

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Insulin

Insulin (from Latin insula, island) is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets; it is considered to be the main anabolic hormone of the body.

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Ion channel

Ion channels are pore-forming membrane proteins that allow ions to pass through the channel pore.

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Lady Robinsons Beach

Lady Robinsons Beach is the stretch of beach between the mouth of the Cooks River and the mouth of Georges River on the western shore of Botany Bay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Laevistrombus canarium

Laevistrombus canarium (commonly known as the dog conch or by its better-known synonym, Strombus canarium) is a species of edible sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Strombidae (true conches).

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List of Conus species

This list of Conus species is a listing of species in the genus Conus, a genus of sea snails, specifically cone snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae.

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List of The Future Is Wild episodes

This is a list of The Future Is Wild episodes.

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List of The Octonauts episodes

This is a list of episodes of the television series The Octonauts, which is a British children's television series, produced by Silvergate Media for the BBC channel CBeebies.The Octonauts had its US premiere on the Disney Channel in January 2012.

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Love dart

A love dart (also known as a gypsobelum) is a sharp, calcareous or chitinous dart which some hermaphroditic land snails and slugs create.

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Meiacanthus grammistes

Meiacanthus grammistes the striped blenny, also called the striped fang blenny, grammistes blenny, line-spot harptail blenny or striped poison-fang blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny from the western Pacific Ocean.

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Mollusca

Mollusca is a large phylum of invertebrate animals whose members are known as molluscs or mollusksThe formerly dominant spelling mollusk is still used in the U.S. — see the reasons given in Gary Rosenberg's.

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Molluscs in culture

Molluscs play a variety of roles in culture, including but not limited to art and literature, with both practical interactions—whether useful or harmful—and symbolic uses.

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Neogastropoda

Neogastropoda is a clade of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.

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Odontophore

The odontophore is part of the feeding mechanism in molluscs.

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Periostracum

The periostracum is a thin organic coating or "skin" which is the outermost layer of the shell of many shelled animals, including molluscs and brachiopods.

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Peripheral membrane protein

Peripheral membrane proteins are membrane proteins that adhere only temporarily to the biological membrane with which they are associated.

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Pygmaeconus

Pygmaeconus is a genus of predatory sea snails, or cone snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae.

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Sea Patrol (season 4)

The fourth season of the Australian drama Sea Patrol began airing as Sea Patrol 4: The Right Stuff on 15 April 2010.

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Takifugu

Takifugu is a genus of pufferfish, often better known by the Japanese name.

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Tarava seamounts

The Tarava seamounts are a group of seamounts in the southern Pacific Ocean, southwest of the Society Islands.

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Toxin

A toxin (from toxikon) is a poisonous substance produced within living cells or organisms; synthetic toxicants created by artificial processes are thus excluded.

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Toxinology

Toxinology is the specialized area of science that deals specifically with animal, plant, and microbial toxins.

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Vasopressin

Vasopressin, also named antidiuretic hormone (ADH), arginine vasopressin (AVP) or argipressin, is a hormone synthesized as a peptide prohormone in neurons in the hypothalamus, and is converted to AVP.

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Venom

Venomous Animals Venom is a form of toxin secreted by an animal for the purpose of causing harm to another.

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Venoms in medicine

Venom in medicine is the medicinal use of venoms for therapeutic benefit in treating diseases.

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Ziconotide

Ziconotide (SNX-111; Prialt) is an atypical analgesic agent for the amelioration of severe and chronic pain.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_snail

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