An added note or two:

I found the previously linked item to be in accordance with the experiences that
I with the cone shells of Hawaii.

Not only, as Kay mentioned, can the Textile Cone reach beyond the spire of its
shell with its probiscis, it can do it out of the water as well!

Bob Dayle

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Quoting Kay Peterson <[log in to unmask]>:

> A footnote in 1964 Cone Shells of the World, by J. A. Marsh states that C.
> textile can reach "far past the end of the spire."  Not too specific, but
> cautionary all the same.
>
> Kay
>

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