While this attack method occurs in a matter of only milliseconds, this toxic venom can even be fatal to humans. When the critter finds its desired meal, it will project a proboscis, a harpoon like tooth, from inside of the shell to sting prey and inject its venom. This is the only death that has been recorded from a cone snail in Australia. The cone snail, like most snails, is slow. However, according to Asbury Park Press, their outer beauty hides a deadly inner secret. Cone Snails are divided into three groups based upon the diet of the animal piscivores which feed on fish, molluscivorous which feed on mollusks and other snails and vermivores which feed on worms. The geography cone (Conus geographus) is a large species of cone snail, reaching up to 120mm long, is thought to be responsible for the death of a young man at Hayman Island on the Great Barrier Reef in 1935. The harmless-looking cone snail lives in a beautiful shell made of colorful brown, black, or white patterns that is prized by beachcombers. The 2014 classification of the superfamily Conoidea, groups only cone snails in the family Conidae.

The Cone Snail uses its sense of smell for hunting prey, as it is equipped with a siphon, which extends from inside the shell to sniff around using chemical receptors. Conidae (also previously referred to as Coninae ), with the current common name of 'cone snails', is a taxonomic family (previously subfamily) of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Conoidea.

Cone snail