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Xymene plebeius Sea Snail

Xymene plebeius is commonly referred to as Sea Snail. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profilbild Urheber Javier Couper (Predomalpha), New Zealand

Foto: Pauatahanui Inlet, Porirua, Neuseeland


Courtesy of the author Javier Couper (Predomalpha), New Zealand Photo taken by Javier Couper. Please visit www.inaturalist.org for more information.

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lexID:
15309 
AphiaID:
399420 
Scientific:
Xymene plebeius 
German:
Meeresschnecke 
English:
Sea Snail 
Category:
Escargots de mer 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricidae (Family) > Xymene (Genus) > plebeius (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Hutton, ), 1873 
Occurrence:
New Zealand, South-Pazific, Tasman Sea 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
0 - 20 Meter 
Habitats:
Brackish water, Estuaries (river mouths), Seawater, Sea water 
Size:
0.39" - 0.79" (1,5cm - 2cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 75.2 °F (°C - 24°C) 
Food:
Carnivore, Clam meat, Clams, Predatory, Worms 
Difficulty:
There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2022-10-28 22:15:18 

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Xymene plebeius is a species of sea snail in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails, and appears to be endemic only around New Zealand (North and South Islands).

The shell snail is found under rocks at low tide and on sheltered sand and mud bottoms.

Xymene plebeius lives predatorily on worms and mollusks, such as the New Zealand cockle (Austrovenus stutchburyi) and the bivalve Paphies australis, appearing to be a beneficiary of the mud whelk (Cominella glandiformis), as it has been observed sucking on mussels drilled by the whelk.

Synonyms:
Fusus inferus Hutton, 1878
Fusus plebeius Hutton, 1873
Xymene inferus (Hutton, 1878)

External links

  1. A review of the genus Xymene Iredale of New Zealand (Mollusca : Muricidae) (en). Abgerufen am 28.10.2022.
  2. Drilling and non-drilling predation in gastropod aggregations in the intertidal zone of a New Zealand harbour (en). Abgerufen am 28.10.2022.
  3. Flickr Homepage Predomalpha (en). Abgerufen am 25.10.2022.
  4. Potential impacts of mechanical cockle harvesting on shorebirds in Golden and Tasman Bays, New Zealand (en). Abgerufen am 28.10.2022.
  5. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 25.10.2022.

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Foto: Pauatahanui Inlet, Porirua, Neuseeland

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