---
title: "Cart-rut Shell"
description: "Dicathais orbita — Other animals. Dicathais is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the rock snails."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/cart-rut-shell
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Cart-rut Shell

> Dicathais orbita — Other animals. Dicathais is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the rock snails.

- Scientific name: *Dicathais orbita*
- Category: `other` (Other animals)
- Habitats: `sea` (Sea & coast)
- iNaturalist observations: 5728
- Wikidata: [Q737213](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q737213)
- iNaturalist taxon: [324573](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/324573)

## Names

- en: Cart-rut Shell
- es: Thais orbita

## Countries with the most observations

AU (4401), NZ (1173)

## Summary

Dicathais is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the rock snails. This genus is monotypic; the only species in it is Dicathais orbita, common name the white rock shell or cart-rut shell, found round the coasts of Australia and New Zealand.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicathais

## Photo

![Cart-rut Shell](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/cart-rut-shell/medium.jpg)

Photo: bitsandbugs · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/342525950

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/cart-rut-shell?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).