A single specimen of the cone shell of this snail can fetch 400$! Its collectors will happily part with

that kind of money! It is one of the most beautiful killers found in the Indian and the Pacific oceans.

Strangely it is a relative of the harmless whelk.

But this animal owns a horrid and loaded trunk-like living syringe. This can whip against the body of an

attacker. In the tip of the trunk are minute needle teeth through which the snail injects paralyzing fluid.

People die with in hours of this pin prick attack by the deadly beautiful snail.

Small wonder that its shell is so highly prized by the collectors!