page_title: Conus marmoreus
section_title: In art
hierarchical_section_title: Conus marmoreus / In art
context_page_description: Conus marmoreus, common name the "marbled cone", is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones. It is the type species for the genus Conus. This is a species which is believed to feed mostly on marine molluscs including other cone snails. This snail is venomous, like all cone snails.
  The subspecies: Conus marmoreus bandanus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 is a synonym of Conus bandanus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792
context_section_description: In 1650 Rembrandt portrayed this cone in an etching as "De schelp" ("The shell").
caption: "De schelp" ("The shell"), etching by Rembrandt
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