Clea bockii
| Clea bockii | |
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| Clea bockii shell | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Buccinidae |
| Genus: | Clea |
| Subgenus: | Anentome |
| Species: | C. bockii |
| Binomial name | |
| Clea bockii Brot, 1881[2] | |
Clea bockii is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks, most of which are marine.[3][4]
Feeding habits
Like all snails in the clade Neogastropoda, this species is carnivorous. It feeds on different types of worms and gastropods, often eating other, larger snails after burying themselves and ambushing their prey.[4]
Reproduction
Clea bockii consists of defined male and female genders, and is not capable of gender change. It is unknown as to how to sex these animals. Both males and females seem to be the same size and shape. When a male and female mate, they lock together for 8-12 hours.
References
- ↑ The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2016-2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 September 2016.
- ↑ Brot A. (1881). "Note sur quelques coquilles fluviatiles recoltées à Bornéo et à Sumatra par M. Carl Bock". Journal de Conchyliologie 29: 154-160. page 159, plate 6, fig. 5
- ↑ Bouchet, P.; Fraussen, K. (2013). "Clea – H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
- 1 2 Monks, Neale (2009). "Assassin Snails and Sulawesi Elephant Snails: Keeping Clea and Tylomelania in the aquarium". Conscientious Aquarist Magazine. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
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