Strombidae, commonly known as the true conchs, is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to very large sea snails in the superfamily Stromboidea, and the Epifamily...
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Conch (category Strombidae)
referred to as "true conches" are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Strombidae, specifically in the genus Strombus and other closely related genera....
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Aliger gigas (category Strombidae)
snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family of true conches, the Strombidae. This species is one of the largest molluscs native to the Caribbean Sea...
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A conch is a kind of large sea snail, especially those in the family Strombidae. Conch may also refer to: Conch Key in Florida Conch Republic, Key West...
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jsames.2014.06.008. hdl:10533/130517. Nielsen, S.N. (2005). "Cenozoic Strombidae, Aporrhaidae, and Struthiolariidae (Gastropoda, Stromboidea) from Chile:...
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Laevistrombus canarium (category Strombidae)
species of edible sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Strombidae (true conches). Known from illustrations in books dating from the late...
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Lambis (category Strombidae)
sometimes known as spider conchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conch family. The siphonal canal is long and curved, and the...
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Strombus (category Strombidae)
of medium to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Strombidae, which comprises the true conchs and their immediate relatives. The genus...
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as a horse conch, this is not a true conch, as it is not in the family Strombidae. With a shell length that can reach 60 centimetres (24 in), this species...
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jsames.2014.06.008. hdl:10533/130517. Nielsen, S.N. (2005). "Cenozoic Strombidae, Aporrhaidae, and Struthiolariidae (Gastropoda, Stromboidea) from Chile:...
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(Buccinidae). It is also a known predator of the dog conch, Strombus canarium (Strombidae). The maximum shell length of this species is up to 275 mm, commonly to...
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Lambis lambis (category Strombidae)
species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. This species is widespread in the Indo-West Pacific...
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Harpago chiragra (category Strombidae)
species of very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. The shell length for this species varies between 85 mm...
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jsames.2014.06.008. hdl:10533/130517. Nielsen, S.N. (2005). "Cenozoic Strombidae, Aporrhaidae, and Struthiolariidae (Gastropoda, Stromboidea) from Chile:...
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Strombus alatus (category Strombidae)
medium-sized, warm-water sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. Its name derives two Latin words. Strombus means, in...
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Canarium olydium (category Strombidae)
olydium is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Canarium olydium...
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tips or bases of their tentacles. Some other gastropods, such as the Strombidae, have much more sophisticated eyes. Giant clams have ocelli that allow...
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Conomurex luhuanus (category Strombidae)
species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. C. luhuanus is found in sandy habitat among corals in...
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Harpago (category Strombidae)
Harpago is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. Harpago ('grappling iron') is also a term used in insect...
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closing the shell aperture. Opercula have sometimes been modified: in the Strombidae the operculum is claw-shaped and is used to push into the substrate in...
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Persististrombus nodosus (category Strombidae)
species of fossil sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the conchs. Persististrombus nodosus is quite polymorphic, but it is...
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Varicospira cancellata (category Strombidae stubs)
Mollusques et Polypes divers. Agasse, Paris. 16 pp. Cotton, B.C. 1953. No. 3. Strombidae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 4pp. (as Rimella...
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sizes have been listed beginning with a few specimens of Cypraeidae and Strombidae in the first edition, and they now additionally encompass a third family:...
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Lambis truncata (category Strombidae)
is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. Subspecies of Lambis truncata include: Lambis truncata...
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Aliger gallus (category Strombidae)
species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. This species is found from southeast Florida and Bermuda...
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representatives of Aporrhaidae, Strombidae, Xenophoridae and Struthiolariidae. In his analysis, Simone recognized Strombidae as a monophyletic taxon supported...
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helmet shells (Cassidae), both with in-turned lips, the true conchs (Strombidae) that develop flaring lips, and many land snails that develop tooth structures...
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Lambis scorpius (category Strombidae)
species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. Subspecies Lambis scorpius indomaris Abbott, 1961 The...
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medium-sized to large sea snails, the conches. Marine gastropods in the family Strombidae have a notch in the edge of the shell aperture not far from the siphonal...
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12657/folmal.032.003. Altaba, C. R. (2024). "A new fossil genus of the family Strombidae (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Stromboidea) from the Middle Miocene of...
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