Raphitoma Volutella (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Raphitoma volutella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae. Conidae is a taxonomic family of minute to quite large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. The snails within this family are sophisticated predatory animals. They hunt and immobilize prey using a modified radular tooth along with a poison gland containing neurotoxins; the tooth is launched out of the snail's mouth in a harpoon-like action. Until fairly recently, this family contained only Conus species, but then several subfamilies were added into the family. These subfamilies were previously in the family Turridae. The Conus species are now in the subfamily Coninae.