Little stinger of the sea

The cone snail (Gastridium geographus) has adapted to bury its self under the ocean floor to hide from predictors and to hunt its prey. The cone fish has finger like projections on his mouth that trick fish into thinking its an anemone or food. The come snail secrets chemicals into the water that sedate their prey. By doing this the cone is able to get close enough to its prey to harpoon it. Some cone have a slimy coat on their shell called periostracum. The slimy coat works as a comouflage in their habitat. The cone snail reproduces by laying eggs and attaching the to a substrate. The legs are laid in capsules, they have two types of offspring some are free swimming larvae and some are like baby snails. I chose the cone snail because they are beautiful but very deadly.