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Conuber sordidum

Conuber sordidum
Conuber sordidum Zoological Illustrations Volume II Plate 79.jpg
Conuber sordidum. From Zoological Illustrations, Volume II, Plate 79, by William Swainson (1821).
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Naticoidea
Family: Naticidae
Genus: Conuber
Species: C. sordidum
Binomial name
Conuber sordidum
(Swainson, 1821)
Synonyms

Conuber sordidum (originally described as Natica sordida by Swainson) is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk family Naticidae, the moon snails.

East coast of Australia, from Victoria to Queensland. The species also occurs off Tasmania and New Zealand.

Conuber sordidum is predatory, feeding mostly on bivalves and gastropods. The species is also known to prey on the soldier crab Mictyris longicarpus by drilling predation. To catch soldier crabs, C. sordidum uses the same stereotyped behaviour as previously described for moon snails hunting shelled molluscan prey.

On intertidal muddy sand flats near mangroves or sea weed.



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