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Magical cone

Conus magus

需要看醫生很少致命，但被螫了需要看醫生。

螫吃：肉

The magical cone is a sea snail with a cone-shaped shell. It is venomous, so it can sting people, and it lives in warm seas across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Its venom has produced a powerful painkiller that is used in medicine.1

分布在

Red Sea, Indian Ocean off Madagascar, western Pacific from Indonesia to Japan, Marshall Islands, Fiji, Philippines, Queensland (Australia)1

印度洋, 太平洋, 紅海, 珊瑚海, 菲律賓海, 南海, 帝汶海與阿拉弗拉海, 孟加拉灣

首頁

It is a marine species that lives in the sea. It occurs over a wide area of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.1

長度

1,6 cm 到 9,4 cm (0,6 in 到 3,7 in)1

最高速度

大約 0,01 km/h（0,01 mph）

游泳, 粗略估計

牠吃什麼？

It is a predatory sea snail. Its venom contains conotoxins, which it uses as part of its predatory behaviour.1

Magical cone 的照片 — Magical cone。照片：(c) Richard Parker，保留部分权利（CC BY）。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎麼認出牠

The shell is white, clouded with bluish ash, orange-brown, chestnut or chocolate.1
Narrow chocolate lines encircle the shell, often broken into separate dots.1
The middle of the body whorl is usually marked irregularly with white.1
The spire (the upper part of the shell) is tessellated, or patterned like tiles, in chestnut or chocolate.1
The pattern and shade of colour vary a lot between individuals.1

毒液力量

螫

毒液從螫針出來。

牠的毒液有什麼作用？

Its venom contains conotoxins, which have powerful neurotoxic effects. Neurotoxic venom attacks the nerves.1

牠對人有多危險？

對人的危險: 嚴重被螫了需要看醫生。死亡案例非常罕見。

Because these snails can sting humans, live cone shells should be handled with great care or preferably not at all.1

如果牠螫人

加壓固定法：用彈性繃帶緊緊包住咬傷處，再往上包住整條手臂或腿，用夾板固定，並讓傷者完全不動，直到救援抵達。
藍環章魚或芋螺會讓人在意識還清醒時就停止呼吸：馬上求救，並準備好做人工呼吸，直到救護人員接手。

一定要先打緊急電話（112、000、911）。這是一般急救指引，不是醫療建議。急救基本知識

注意安全

絕對不要碰、抓或捉弄野生動物，就算是很小的動物，就算牠看起來在睡覺或已經死了也一樣。
給牠空間。如果遇到了，保持冷靜，慢慢往後退，讓牠自己離開。
如果被牠螫了：保持冷靜，保持不動，打緊急電話（112、000、911）或趕快去醫院。記住牠的樣子，有照片會很有幫助。

牠不是想來抓你。牠用毒液來捕捉食物或保護自己，而且牠更想躲起來。更多安全知識

在世界上的哪裡？

非洲亞洲歐洲北美洲南美洲澳洲與大洋洲太平洋印度洋紅海珊瑚海南海菲律賓海帝汶海與阿拉弗拉海孟加拉灣

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

跟 3 塊玩具積木排成一排一樣長比花園蝸牛還慢

Magical cone 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡做算術。什麼都不會儲存，也不會傳送到任何地方。

牠有多快？

一隻海馬 大約 0,0015 km/h (0 mph)

Magical cone 大約 0,01 km/h (0,01 mph)

一隻花園蝸牛 大約 0,05 km/h (0,03 mph)

值得知道

小知識

A painkiller called ziconotide is made from a chemical derived from this snail's toxin. It is about 1000 times as potent as morphine.1

Ziconotide works by blocking calcium channels in pain-carrying nerve cells, so they cannot send pain signals to the brain. It is injected into the spinal fluid.1

The US Food and Drug Administration approved ziconotide in December 2004, under the name Prialt.1

Dr. Baldomero Olivera at the University of Utah discovered the compound that led to ziconotide.1