Clea spinosa

Clea spinosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda

Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Clea
Subgenus: Anentome
Species: C. spinosa
Binomial name
Clea spinosa
Temcharoen, 1971

Clea spinosa[2] 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]

Distribution

This Southeast Asian species is currently known from a less than 50-km2 area along the Mekong River, between Khong Island in Laos and Bandan (Ban Dan Ky) in Cambodia.[5]

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 spinosa 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.

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