Geography cone
Amazing fact
The geographic cone snail swallows fish whole and later brings up the bones.
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The geographic cone snail swallows fish whole and later brings up the bones.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Geography cone
- Scientific name
- Conus geographus
- Japanese name
- アンボイナガイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Conidae
- Genus
- Conus
A sea snail of tropical waters from the Izu Islands southward across the Indo-West Pacific; it is also called habu-gai.
It injects venom into small fish and other prey, paralyzing them before eating them.
How the Geography cone lives
It stays buried in sand by day and hunts at night. It crawls over the bottom or through the sand. It sometimes engulfs a fish with its expandable mouthpart.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity WebBasic data
- Diet
- Small fish and other prey
- Range
- The tropical Indian to western Pacific oceans south of the Izu Islands
Where the Geography cone has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- アンボイナガイ
- 简体中文
- 地纹芋螺
- 繁體中文
- 殺手芋螺
- 한국어
- 지리원뿔달팽이
- Français
- Cône géographe
- Deutsch
- Landkartenkegel
- Português (Brasil)
- Cone-geográfico
- Italiano
- Cono geografico
- العربية
- حلزون مخروطي جغرافي
- Tiếng Việt
- Ốc cối địa lý
- Русский
- Конус географический
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — アンボイナガイChecked: 2026-11-04
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Conus geographusChecked: 2026-11-05
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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