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Queen Victoria cone

Conus victoriae
Fa mo malQuai fa mal, ma i na ta fa nagin donn serius.
Lindornas conicas e polips PiztgadasMangia: Charn
Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

The Queen Victoria cone is a sea snail with a patterned shell. It lives in the sea off northern Australia. It can sting people, and its venom is being studied for possible pain medicines.1

Viva en
Endemic to Australia: Western Australia from Broome north to the mouth of the Victoria River, Northern Territory.1
Ocean Indic, Ocean Pacific, Mar da Coral, Mar da Timor e d'Arafura
Pagina iniziala
It is a marine species, living in the sea off the coast of northern Western Australia and the Northern Territory.1
Lunghezza
3,5 cm fin 9,4 cm (1,4 in fin 3,7 in)1
Sveltezza maximala
circa 0,01 km/h (0,01 mph)
Nudar, stima approximativa
Tge mangia el?
It is a predatory snail that eats other molluscs, which is why it is called a mollusc-eating cone.1
Propi!Foto da Queen Victoria cone
Queen Victoria cone. Foto: Almed2. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Co renconuscher el

  • Its shell has a light, net-like pattern of small, pale, arid-coloured markings.1
  • These pale markings contrast strongly with bands of very dark chocolate-brown stripes that run along the shell.1
  • Some areas of the shell are partly covered by violet-tinged clouds.1
  • The shell is usually 35 to 94 mm long.1

Savens confundì cun: It is often compared with Conus textile, which it may be related to. The net-like markings on Queen Victoria cones are mostly smaller and lighter than those of Conus textile.1

Forza dal tissi

Piztgadas

Il tissi vegn or tras in aguigl.

Tge fa ses tissi?

It is venomous. One part of its venom, called alpha conotoxin Vc1.1 (ACV1), acted as a strong painkiller in animal pain tests. It is being studied as a possible replacement for morphine in treating nerve pain.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

Like all cone snails, it is capable of stinging humans, so its sting can cause harm.1

Sch'el piztga

  • Immobilisaziun cun squitsch: envolva ina bandascha elastica ferma sur la morsa e lura vi da l'entir member ensi, fixescha el cun ina stecca e tegna la persuna dal tut immobila, fin che l'agid arriva.
  • In polip cun anels blaus u ina lindorna conica po far che ina persuna na respira betg pli, entant ch'ella è anc dasda: clama agid e sajas pront da dar respiraziun artifiziala, fin che l'equipa da l'ambulanza surpiglia.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

  • Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
  • Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
  • Sch'in tal animal ta piztga: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

Queen Victoria cone circa 9,4 cm lung (3,7 in)In clip da palpiri circa 3 cm (1,2 in)In smartphone circa 15 cm (5,9 in)
uschè lung sco 3 bluccs da construcziun in suenter l'auterpli plaun ch'ina lindorna da curtin

Quant grond è Queen Victoria cone cumpareglià cun TAI?

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Quant svelt è el?

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Fatgs

1

Its venom contains a compound that has been shown to relieve pain in animal tests, and it is being studied as a possible alternative to morphine for nerve pain.1

2

It belongs to the cone snail family, Conidae, and all members of its genus are predatory and venomous.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific
Conus victoriae
Gruppa
Lindornas conicas e polips
Famiglia
Conidae2
Urden
Neogastropoda
Continents
Ocean Indic, Ocean Pacific, Mar da Coral, Mar da Timor e d'Arafura, Ils oceans
Privel per umans
2 / 5: Dolurus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Conus victoriae (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Conus victoriae (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
  3. Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.

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