Conuber sordidus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Naticoidea |
Family: | Naticidae |
Genus: | Conuber[1] |
Species: | C. sordidus |
Binomial name | |
Conuber sordidus (Swainson, 1821) |
Conuber sordidus (originally described as Natica sordida by Swainson) is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk family Naticidae, the moon snails.[2]
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East coast of Australia, from Victoria to Queensland. The species also occurs in Tasmania and New Zealand.[3]
Conuber sordidus is predatory, feeding mostly on bivalves and gastropods.[4] The species is also known to prey on the soldier crab Mictyris longicarpus by drilling predation.[5] [6] To catch soldier crabs, C. sordidus uses the same stereotyped behaviour as previously described for moon snails hunting shelled molluscan prey.[6]
On intertidal muddy sand flats near mangroves or sea weed.[3]