CONE SHELLS

Feeding

The Venom

• The venom apparatus and how it works [Animated .gif & QTime Movie]
• Designing the perfect venom ...what to include and why ...The conopeptides
• The conotoxin production line
• Conotoxin structures
  • View amino acid sequences
  • View 3D images of conotoxins
  • View Full list of conopeptides in PIR
  • View Conopeptide Patents
• Disulphide loop frameworks
• Classification

• Sites of action and specificity
• the voltage-gated ion channels
• the ligand-gated ion channel

• Non-fatal envenomations
• Fatal envenomations

• Protein classification : conotoxins as tools for membrane protein classification
• Pharmacology : utilising the toxins to study the molecular biology of receptors
• Medical uses of conotoxins : using conotoxins to treat medical disorders
• Pain killer from the sea. Clinical trials on SNX-111
• Reform of the Killer Snails, by Sandra Ackerman
• Review article "Keeping Up With the Cones" by Aparna Sreenivasan in Natural History 111:(1) 40-47, February 2002.

The Australian Cone Shell Collection (under construction)

The Gallery of Coneshells (from our collection)

Collection of Coneshell Stamps
Comprehensive List of Cone Shells on Stamps provided by Tom Walker

See also "Shells on Stamps". There are over 5080 stamps figured, 1600 details highlighted. You can search by country, by theme, family, species etc... Each stamps is documented (when you click on it). This database has been compiled by the philatelist Tom Walker, Great Britain, who also supplied the information for the Cone Shells on Stamps on this web site. Box Office "Movies"

• Predator: The Movie Clip (Conus textile envenomates a small mollusc)
• The Predator Strikes Again! (Conus textile pursues a small mollusc)
• Coneshells: The Next Generation (Conus textile depositing egg sacks) 
• Coneshells: Size Doesn't Matter (Conus magus envenomating a fish)

• VIDEO: Cone snail envenomates a fish:

  Cone shell swallowing a fish (from National Geographic site).Watch this movie.

  Read about Conus geographus and Print this Fact Sheet

  From the Nature site is this great film clip Cone shell cures from which you can select the movie

  
  TREATING PAIN: Synthetic snail venom may lead to new drugs produced by Heather Ross, reported by Lucky Severson, story by Shawn O'Leary, video edited by Katie Elfsten (source INN Health Surfing Report, Tuesday March 14, 2000; INNX / InterNetwork News. Copyright © 1999-2001)
  Cone snail envenomation - video REAL PLAYER Auto; Medium ; Large ; QUICK TIME Small ; Medium ; Large ; WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER Small ; Medium ; Large (“Copyright (c) 2000, InterNetwork News All rights reserved.” ).

• Envenomation by a cone snail
  Conus magus envenomates a small fish (gobie)
• Click here to see how a conus snail eats its prey. [Source: "Seas of Promise" - an article by Bob Mims about COGNETIX, published in Salt Lake City Tribune, 11 November, 2001]