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Magical cone

Conus magus

需要看医生很少致命，但被蜇了要去看医生。

蜇伤吃：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

生活在

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, 红海, 珊瑚海, 菲律宾海, 南海, 帝汶海和阿拉弗拉海, 孟加拉湾

首页

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

长度

1.6 cm到9.4 cm (0.6 in到3.7 in)1

最高速度

约 0.01 公里/小时（0.01 英里/小时）

游泳, 粗略估计

它吃什么？

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.

怎样认出它

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

毒液之力

蜇伤

毒液通过蜇刺出来。

它的毒液会造成什么？

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

它对人有多危险？

对人的危险: 严重被蜇了要去看医生。死亡非常罕见。

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

如果它蜇人

加压固定法：用有弹性的绷带紧紧缠住咬伤处，再缠满整条肢体，用夹板固定，让人完全不动，直到救援到来。
蓝环章鱼或芋螺可能让人在清醒时停止呼吸：立刻呼救，并准备好做人工呼吸，直到救护车接手。

一定先拨打你的急救电话（112、000、911）。这里是一般急救指导，不是医疗建议。急救基础

注意安全

永远不要摸、抓或逗弄野生动物，即使是很小的，即使它看起来在睡觉或已经死了。
给它留出空间。如果遇到它，保持冷静，慢慢后退，让它走自己的路。
如果被它蜇了：保持冷静，保持不动，拨打你的急救电话（112、000、911）或尽快去医院。记住它长什么样，拍张照片会有帮助。

它不是冲着你来的。它用毒液捕猎或保护自己，而且它更愿意躲起来。更多安全知识

在世界哪里？

非洲亚洲欧洲北美洲南美洲澳大利亚和大洋洲太平洋印度洋红海珊瑚海南海菲律宾海帝汶海和阿拉弗拉海孟加拉湾

它有多大？

它有多长？

和 3 块玩具积木排成一排一样长比花园蜗牛还慢

Magical cone和你比起来有多大？

只是在你的浏览器里算一算。什么都不会被保存或发送到任何地方。

它有多快？

一只海马 约 0.0015 公里/小时 (0 mph)

Magical cone 约 0.01 公里/小时 (0.01 mph)

一只花园蜗牛 约 0.05 公里/小时 (0.03 mph)

值得了解

事实

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