Latin Name: Conus Tulipa
Common name: Tulip Cone
English name: Tulip Cone, Cone shell
Class: Gastropoda
Family : Conidae
Size: 5 to 10 cm
place where the photos were taken: Balicasag Island, Bohol, Philippines.
This kind of cone is very similar and easily confused with the dangerous Conus geographus, but differs in some details first of all size.
Moderately large, not very solid, the shell shows a spiral of alternating white and brown stripes formed by dots and dashes, but the foot is white with dark brown spots tending amaranth.
lives of around 10 m depth from coral rubble, rocks and sand, feeding on fish and shellfish and poison is highly toxic to fish and small mammals.
mode power Conus Tulipa is markedly different from that of other types of cones, it was observed that swallows its prey with the beak with a large amount of water, but to date has not yet been able to determine even if at the same time injecting venom through the small dart thrown from his trunk.
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