Talk:Conidae

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 * Cone snails are the only known animals that produce D isomer amino acids.

This sounds extremely interesting, now where's the source ? Taw 00:16, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Cone snails are the only known animals that produce D isomer amino acids.

There are no references for this in the article, and searching google and pubmed doesn't return any relevant results. So unless someone has some reference, I'm removing this sentence. Taw 08:59, 7 December 2005 (UTC)


 * If you enter "cone snail containing D isomer amino acids?" into Google, you will find that the issue concerning amino acids comes up..and not only with the Cone Snail.  Other land dwelling snails seem to contain useful amino acids. Molliemcguire 19:15, 29 November 2006 (UTC)molliemcguire

non scientific name for conus geographus?
 * Geography cone. SeeConus JoJan 18:34, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Having researched cone snails extensively for a report, I think I can be of help here. Conus geographus, like many other cone snails, is simply given the common name "cone snail". As for the amino acids part, the snails produce extremly potent neurological chemicals that "hack" the nervous system to do things like cause instant paralysis. They are being researched for medical purposes because of their extrem speed of effect, and lack of side effects(which would slow down the venom by getting in the way, a bad thing for a slow moving snail.) --Scorpion451 06:03, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

This sentence seemed unnecessary in the introduction, so I removed it. "The shell when handled should be held with a large forceps since the harpoon can reach any part of the snail's shell surface. A wound caused by a cone sting should be treated by dipping the affected region in hot water for one hour in order to reduce the pain." Calamus Fortis  18:05, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Interesting
First of all why the redirect. Articles on taxa (e.g. family Conidae) should be under a taxonomic, not vernacular heading.

Overall a collection of interesting facts but mostly regarding their venomous aspect with little on the general biology, ecology, or taxonomy.

Perhaps the Conidae artilce should be retaimed with basic information and taxobox with a link (not redirect) to this article, basically as is.

John McDonnell 14Jume2009  —Preceding undated comment added 20:39, 14 June 2009 (UTC).

Conus synonyms
There is a lot of genus that are synonyms of Conus but linking to a non-existing article. Should the links be removed or should a redirect be put in each case ? I'd go for a redirect since they would be picked up by the search engine. zubrowka 74 02:54, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Removed this paragraph
I removed this paragraph because currently it is out-of-date, and I am not sure it needs including now, at least not in its present form. If people want to include it, my option is that it should be edited to be more up-to-date and relevant. Invertzoo (talk) 15:23, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

"The World Register of Marine Species places all species within the family Conidae in the genus Conus and the genera recognized by Tucker & Tenorio 2009 are considered to be "alternate representations". Debate within the scientific community regarding this issue continues, and additional molecular phylogeny studies are being carried out in an attempt to clarify the issue.         "

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Request to merge Cone snail into this page
Cone snail is just the common name for Conidae, so I believe that the pages should be merged. Invalid OS (talk) 13:44, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Against merging the article Cone snail into the article Conidae is stupid. I read that scientists are planning to break up the cone shells into more then one family.Catfurball (talk) 19:33, 7 October 2019 (UTC)