| Conus litteratus | |
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| Two views of a shell of Conus litteratus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Conus |
| Species: | C. litteratus |
| Binomial name | |
| Conus litteratus Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Conus litteratus, common name the lettered cone, is a species of sophisticated predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snail, cone shells or cones. This is an Indo-Pacific species.
This cone species hunts and eats marine worms.