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Fatalities[edit]

The body count listed here contradicts with that of the main Cone Snail article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_snail#Harpoon_and_venoms 198.187.174.15 (talk) 19:49, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Shell description[edit]

Is the word 'obsolete' a mistake? ('Oblique', maybe?) Notreallydavid (talk) 10:48, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is not a mistake. "Obsolete" means here "less developed, rudimentary; vestigial" JoJan (talk) 13:34, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Venom[edit]

"...These estimates make the geographic cone snail the most venomous animal in the world". Two points about this:

The references given don't seem to mention any comparison with other venoms, so statement seems to be OR
There is more to being "most venomous" than the potency per mg of the venom - it clearly also depends on the quantity of venom typically injected. I don't know but it seems likely that, e.g., some snakebites are more likly to kill than a cone snail envenomation.

I will remove the quoted sentence if no justification for it is given.Newburyjohn (talk) 17:11, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"Yoshiba estimated an LD50 of 0.001-0.003 mg/kg. In two cases of envenomation, only 0.0002-0.0005 mg resulted in severe paralysis." That should be 0.0002-0.0005 mg/kg, shouldn't it? And "Yoshiba" needs a reference.DKMell (talk) 20:55, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cigarette snail[edit]

I tried to add that it's called the ciagarette snail because it's so venomous that if struck the victim will only have enough time to enjoy one last cigarette before dying, and given that there are no known treatments, it is the deadliest animal in the world. When I added that information it was reverted by a bot and a site admin said if I contradicted the bot again I'd be banned. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.240.195.4 (talk) 21:27, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That's because you haven't bothered to provide a WP:SOURCE to demonstrate that this is a truthful claim.--Mr Fink (talk) 22:23, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]