Conuber sordidum
# Conuber sordidum

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.

## Distribution

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

## Life habits

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.

## Habitat

On intertidal muddy sand flats near mangroves or sea weed.

