Latin name: Conus Tulipa Common Name: Cone tulip English name: Tulip Cone, Cone Shell Class: Gastropoda Family: Conidae Size: 5 to 10 cm Location where the photos were taken: Balicasag Island, Bohol, Philippines.

This kind of cone is very similar and easily confused with the dangerous Conus geographus, but differs in some details first of all size.

Moderately large, not very solid, the shell shows a spiral of alternating white and brown stripes formed by dots and dashes, but the foot is white with dark brown spots tending all'amaranto.

He lives about 10 meters deep in the coral rubble, rocks and sand, it feeds on fish and shellfish and poison is highly toxic to fish and small mammals.

The power mode of Conus Tulipa is markedly different from that of other types of cones, it was observed that swallows its prey with the beak with a large amount of water, but to date has not yet been able to determine simultaneously also inject venom through the tiny dart hurled from his trunk.