textile cone

English

A live individual of Conus textile, head end towards the right.

Noun

textile cone (plural textile cones)

1. An attractive cone shell (Conus textile) in which the colours are arranged so that they resemble certain kinds of cloth, found in the Indo-Pacific.
   • 1997, Craig Thomas, Susan Scott, All Stings Considered: First Aid and Medical Treatment of Hawaii's Marine Injuries, passage 25:

     The hollow, transparent tooth of a cone snail can remain lodged in the puncture wound. In a 2-inch-long textile cone snail , the tooth is about 1/4 inch long.

   • 2010, Loisette M. Marsh, Shirley Slack-Smith, Field Guide to Sea Stingers and Other Venomous and Poisonous Marine Invertebrates, page 154:

     The textile cone lives in tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and is fairly common on the Western Australian coast south to about Point Coates.

   • 2016, Lee Atchison, Architecting for Scale: High Availability for Your Growing Applications, page 204:

     The animal on the cover of Architecting for Scale is a textile cone sea snail

   • 2017, Ruth Martin, The Animal Book, Lonely Planet Kids:

     Shaped like an ice-cream cone, the textile cone has eye stalks at its narrow end as well as a special tube used to smell food and breathe even while it is hidden beneath the sand.

References

• Conus textile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Conus textile on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Conus textile on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Conus textile at World Register of Marine Species
• “textile cone”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.