The cone snail

Cone snails (genus Conus) members of the family Conidae have conical shells, long narrow apertures, and short blunt spires. Outer lip thin and smooth; inner lip never toothed or pleated. Cones are predators and use hollow harpoon-like teeth to inject a potent neurotoxin. Conus textile and C. geographus are potenentially lethal to humans.There are over 600 different species of  cone snails. Cone snails are carnivorous and feeds on marine worms, mollusks, small fish and even other cone snails because cone snails are slow moving they use a venomous harpoon (called a toxoglosson radula) to capture faster moving prey sush as fish. the larger species, especially the piscivorous ones are powerful enough to kill a human being.

classification

kingdom: Animalia
phylum:   Mollusca
class:      Gastropoda
unranked:Gaenogastropoda
                Hypsogastropda
                Neogastropoda
superfamily: Conoidea
family: conidae
subfamily: Coninae
genus: Conus