Textile cone snails live mostly in the Indian Ocean, along the eastern coast of Africa and around Australia.

[8] C. textile lives in the waters of the Red Sea, the tropical Indo-Pacific, off Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia), New Zealand, the Indian Ocean from eastern Africa to Hawaii, and French Polynesia.

[11] C. textile is a carnivorous species, and uses a radula (a biological microscopic needle) to inject a conotoxin to kill its prey.

[12] The proboscis, the tip of which holds the harpoon-like radular tooth, is capable of being extended to any part of its own shell.

The living animal is a risk to any person handling it who has not taken proper care to protect exposed skin.