Location: Point Perpendicular (Jervis Bay, NSW)

Habitat: Reef, 16 m

Location: Cloudy Bay (Bruny Island, TAS)

Habitat: Rocky intertidal

Location: Furneaux Group (Bass Straight, TAS)

Habitat: Reef, 5 m

Location: Central Coast (NSW)

Habitat: Rocky intertidal

Note: juveniles shown above

Dicathais orbita
Cart-rut shell

 

Phylum: Mollusca

Class: Gastropoda

Subclass: Orthogastropoda

Order: Sorbeoconcha

Family: Muricidae

Genus: Dicathais

Species: orbita