Textile cone
Amazing fact
The “tagayasan” in the textile cone’s Japanese name refers to a Southeast Asian tree with hard wood.
鳥羽水族館
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The “tagayasan” in the textile cone’s Japanese name refers to a Southeast Asian tree with hard wood.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Textile cone
- Scientific name
- Conus textile
- Japanese name
- タガヤサンミナシ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Conidae
- Genus
- Conus
The minashi ("no contents") part of its name comes from how its shell looks empty when it pulls back deep inside.
Basic data
- Size
- Shell size: about 10 cm
- Diet
- Shellfish
- Range
- The Kii Peninsula southward and the Pacific Ocean
Where the Textile 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
- タガヤサンミナシ
- 简体中文
- 织锦芋螺
- 繁體中文
- 織錦芋螺
- Español
- Cono textil
- Français
- Cône drap-d'or
- Deutsch
- Weberkegel
- Italiano
- Cono tessile
- Русский
- Текстильный конус
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 — タガヤサンミナシChecked: 2026-11-04
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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