Shells and prey capture behavior of Conus californicus “Hinds, R.B” Reeve, L.A., 1844. Conus californicus, the California cone, inhabits the temperate costal waters off California and Baja California. Live animals (top left) were collected on the Western coast of Baja California roughly 40 km north of Ensenada, Mexico. A photograph of a shell from one of these specimens is shown (top right). An interesting feature of C. californicus feeding behavior is that individual snails cooperate in order to subdue prey items larger than themselves, like a marauding wolf pack converging on larger prey. Such behavior has never been documented for any other Conus species.