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Interesting subject!
> Why does the Cone have a perc at all?
>Why isn't it larger? Is the Cone experiencing some evolutionary change in
>which the perc is just developing or (on the other hand) disappearing?
- more likely disappearing.
It would appear to be vestigial.... left over from 'some previous life',
as it were !
where it may have been useful for something other than protection,
like how Strombus uses its operc for propulsion:
(some Conus opercs remind me of Strombus opercs, thus my comment.)
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Either the host dies, or the virus dies,
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