Alphabet Cone also known as Conus Spurius is species of predatory sea snail in the family Conidae commonly known as cone snails, while you may think a snail might have difficulty hunting unless the creature is also slow such as other gastropods and invertebrates while this is true that Cone snails have a special trait allowing them to hunt fish and other creatures this is a venomous harpoon attached to a flexible tube in there proboscis that the snail can strike a target and reel it back in from a short distance as the venom quickly incapacitates its meal. While some of the cone snails are said to sting similar to a bee sting many of the larger species like the marble cone are known to be fatal to humans if struck by the snail's harpoon.