>As a matter of fact yes. I have felt the radula from a Liguus scraping
>the top of my
>hand as he crawled. I suppose radular scraping is as close to a snail
>bite as you can
>get, except of course, being harpooned by a cone.

Apparently Carinaria (dim recollection of having read this years ago)
is known to attack nearby hands... and being a voracious swimming
carnivore, i don't think I'd want it to be MY hands.
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