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Clea wykoffi

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Buccinidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Buccinoidea

Genus
  
Clea

Clea wykoffi 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.

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Distribution

This Southeast Asian species occurs in the Tak Province in northern Thailand.

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.

Reproduction

Clea wykoffi 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

Clea wykoffi Wikipedia