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Queen Victoria cone

Conus victoriae

只是會痛會痛，但不會對你造成嚴重傷害。

螫吃：肉

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

分布在

Endemic to Australia: Western Australia from Broome north to the mouth of the Victoria River, Northern Territory.1

印度洋, 太平洋, 珊瑚海, 帝汶海與阿拉弗拉海

首頁

It is a marine species, living in the sea off the coast of northern Western Australia and the Northern Territory.1

長度

3,5 cm 到 9,4 cm (1,4 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 snail that eats other molluscs, which is why it is called a mollusc-eating cone.1

Queen Victoria cone 的照片 — Queen Victoria cone。照片：Almed2。 CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

怎麼認出牠

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

常被誤認為： 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

毒液力量

螫

毒液從螫針出來。

牠的毒液有什麼作用？

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

牠對人有多危險？

對人的危險: 疼痛可能會非常痛，但幾乎從來不會很嚴重。

Like all cone snails, it is capable of stinging humans, so its sting can cause harm.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珊瑚海帝汶海與阿拉弗拉海

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

Queen Victoria 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)

Queen Victoria 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

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

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