Anentome spinosa
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
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|status = DD
|status_system = IUCN3.1
|status_ref = {{Cite journal | author = Rintelen, T. | title = Clea spinosa | journal = The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | volume = 2011 | page = e.T188896A8659143 | date = 2011 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T188896A8659143.en | doi-access = free }}
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| taxon = Anentome spinosa
| authority = (Temcharoen, 1971)
| synonyms =
- Clea (Anentome) spinosa Temcharoen, 1971
- Clea spinosa Temcharoen, 1971
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Anentome spinosa is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Anentominae of the family Nassariidae.{{cite WoRMS|title=Anentome spinosa|id=1027037|accessdate=26 November 2024}}{{cite web |url=http://www.wetwebmedia.com/ca/volume_6/volume_6_4/clea.html |title=Assassin Snails and Sulawesi Elephant Snails: Keeping Clea and Tylomelania in the aquarium |last1=Monks |first1=Neale |authorlink=Neale Monks |date=2009 |magazine=Conscientious Aquarist Magazine |volume=6 |number=4 |accessdate=March 11, 2014}}
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.{{EOL|4817671|Clea spinosa}}
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 ==
Anentome 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.