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Conus marmoreus[edit]

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OriginalConus marmoreus is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones. It is the type species for the Conus genus. This is a species which is believed to feed mostly on marine molluscs including other cone snails.
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Conus marmoreus
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Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Molluscs
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Llez
  • If the picture was sort of painting User:Xanthomelanoussprog would be right but the colors of snail are naturally imprinted. Alborzagros (talk) 09:57, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • To quote from the article "the shell color can range from black with white dots, to orange with white reticulations, so arranged as to expose the white in rounded triangular large spots. The aperture is white or light pink." The colour casts are magenta and green, neither of which appear to be naturally imprinted. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:17, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted -- - The Herald (here I am) 07:27, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]