Venomous Cones

[dmaverick75]

Having collected live species of <i>C. geographus, C. striatus, C textile, and C. tulipa</i>, I absolutely agree that geographus is by far the most active of the "deadly 4."  We always used to keep plastic jars with screw cap lids with us when diving/snorkeling.  If we happened upon any of these specimens that we were interested in collecting, we would place the jar in front of the animal and quickly push it from the back, and into the jar, then place the lid on the jar and tighten.  We feel that was the safest way to collect these species.