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Colubraria is a genus of sea snail indigenous to coral reefs

feed on sleeping fish Bouchet & Perrine, 1996

Australia • Australia:Western Australia • Bahamas • Brazil • Brazil:Bahia • Colombia • Ecuador • India • Japan • Mozambique • Panama • United States • Venezuela  But there is also another bizarre kind of parasitism that was discovered only a few years ago, involwing parrot fish and the snails of the buccinid genus Colubraria. For a long time it was unknown what these shells ate as they have no radula but a very long proboscis. This is one of the spectacular photos of a sleeping parrot fish being stung into its mouth by Colubraria obscura, now known as the "vampire-snail".