User:Tlargo/Conus purus

Comments by A. Faucci (Apr 2024):


 * great work on working in your sandbox!!!
 * Good job including all the necessary sections and keeping the info in each section to its respective topic. I would keep the section titles from the original article (Distribution, Description) but change Distribution to Distribution & Habitat and add the Life cycle info to Description
 * Nice work on connecting your sentences to their respective sources using the correct formatting!
 * Things to work on:
 * Make sure your information is about your species only and not cone snails in general. That info is part o a different wikipedia page.
 * I would add some more information under Description. Add some info like Size (see main article). Also, be more clear about what you mean about the shell variation between individuals. You could point to the gallery already part of the main article.
 * Make sure you write in full sentences using proper grammar. Also remember that this is a site accessed by people worldwide, so be concise and clear.
 * Make sure that all scientific species names are in italic and though it is ok to shorten the genus, you always write it out in a new paragraph/section and at the beginning of a sentence.
 * Add 3 more sources (see the books I emailed etc.)

Distribution & Habitat
Endemic to Hawaii. Common down to fifteen feet in tidepools, in the sand under rocks. The cone inhabits shallow water, no deeper than 15 feet.

Description
The Conus purus, is white with a tented pattern tinged with reddish brown. The spire of the shell can range from flat to conical. Each individual cone chell has a different shell form, color, and pattern. This particular cone has a smooth shoulder that differenciates from the marbled cone. The spire of the cone comes to spire or a point. Additonally, the animal has brown mottling and is tan, with distinct black, white, and red tips on the siphon. Cone snails possess venom that is so strong that it may rapidly paralyze and ultimately kill victims. The Conus purus venom is a complicated mixture of substances that blocks various neuromuscular pathways, ultimately resulting in paralysis. Each species of cone snail has a particular mix of peptides that make up its venom. It is estimated that the number of bioactive chemicals in each snail's venom is over 100,000. The development of a potent antitoxin has been hampered by the venom's intricacy and the several target routes. Unlike most cones, juveniles settle where they hatch.

Behaviors
Feeds on other mollusks.