Number of species of fish-, mollusk-, and worm-hunting cone snails of the Conus species

Range >500 Conus species
Organism Predatory cone snail Conus spp.
Reference Singer HM et al., Selective purification of recombinant neuroactive peptides using the flagellar type III secretion system. MBio. 2012 May 29 3(3). pii: e00115-12. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00115-12 p.5 left column bottom paragraphPubMed ID22647788
Comments P.5 left column bottom paragraph: "More than 500 species of fish-, mollusk-, and worm-hunting cone snails have evolved, and every Conus species appears to have a repertoire of around 100 different venom components, mostly small, disulfide-rich peptides that rapidly affect the prey organism at multiple targets." See Terlau & Olivera, 2004, PMID 14715910 Abstract: "Each of the 500 Conus can express approximately 100 different conotoxins, with little overlap between species."
Entered by Uri M
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