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Conus textile, the textile cone or the cloth of gold cone [3] is a venomous species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones. Textile cone snails live mostly in the Indian Ocean, along the eastern coast of Africa and around Australia.
This list of gastropods described in 2018 is a list of new taxa of snails and slugs of every kind that have been described (following the rules of the ICZN) during the year 2018. The list only includes taxa at the rank of genus or species .
Cloth of gold woven with golden strips Cloth of gold or gold cloth ( Latin : Tela aurea ) is a fabric woven with a gold -wrapped or spun weft —referred to as "a spirally spun gold strip". In most cases, the core yarn is silk , wrapped ( filé ) with a band or strip of high content gold.
Gastropods (/ ˈ ɡ æ s t r ə p ɒ d z /), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (/ ɡ æ s ˈ t r ɒ p ə d ə /).
One known predator of the dog conch is the cloth-of-gold cone snail, Conus textile. During the 19th century, strombid gastropods were believed to be carnivores. This erroneous conception was based on the writings of French naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck, whose classification scheme grouped strombids with carnivorous sea snails. [32]
The subclass is the most diverse and ecologically successful of the gastropods. [ 3 ] Caenogastropoda contains many families of shelled marine molluscs – including the periwinkles , cowries , wentletraps , moon snails , murexes , cone snails and turrids – and constitutes about 60% of all living gastropods.
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised in 2005 by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is a system for the scientific classification of gastropod mollusks (Gastropods are a taxonomic class of animals which consists of snails and slugs of every kind, from the land, from freshwater, and from saltwater).
Vetigastropods range in size from approximately 0.08 in (2 mm) long in the case of Scissurelloidea or Skeneoidea, to more than 11.8 in (300 mm) in length, as with the Haliotoidea. External colours and patterns are typically drab, but such groups as the Tricolioidea and some Trochoidea and Pleurotomarioidea have bright colours and glossy shells.