Let's jump into the water and meet everybody from the liquid side of the Mediterranean! We would like to introduce you the hidden inhabitants of the amazing Mediterranean sea.
22 Sept 2009
Conus the Mediterranean
Conus mediterraneus is far away from his family. He belongs to a great family of snails with more than 400 species. Unfortunately he is the only specie of the family Conidae at the Mediterranean sea. Once at 1986 a cousin of him C.fumigatus visit him from the Red sea that he lived but he didn't stay for a lot. So C.mediterraneus continues his life by hunting polychaetes and other animals with his venomous harpoon!!! You can find him at shallow water hanging around with a lazy style.
Photos from Kolimpithres beach Paros.
Conus ventricosus is a synonym.
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see also there http://www.weichtiere.at/english/gastropoda/sea/ocean_floor.html
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