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Strombidae

20 species · Animals

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Littorinimorpha › Strombidae

Strombus pugilis Linnaeus, 1758

Strombus pugilis is a species of sea snail found in the western Atlantic, with edible flesh, shells used for decoration and traditional medicine.

Strombus gracilior G.B.Sowerby I, 1825

Strombus gracilior G.B.Sowerby I, 1825 is a conch species found along the Pacific coast of the Americas from Mexico to Peru.

Lambis scorpius (Linnaeus, 1758)

Lambis scorpius is a sea snail species with a 95–220 mm adult shell found in parts of the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.

Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Lambis lambis is a widespread Indo-West Pacific sea snail with a distinctive large, heavy shell showing sexual dimorphism in its digitations.

Lambis truncata (Lightfoot), 1786

Lambis truncata is the largest spider shell, found across parts of the Indian and Pacific oceans in shallow sandy rubble habitats.

Aliger gigas (Linnaeus, 1758)

Aliger gigas (queen conch) is a large edible Caribbean marine gastropod mollusc fished commercially.

Lobatus raninus (Gmelin, 1791)

Lobatus raninus is a herbivorous marine gastropod with a robust brown shell, found in Caribbean shallow waters near seagrass beds.

Euprotomus bulla (Röding, 1798)

Euprotomus bulla is a Pacific sea snail with distinct colored shells found at around 500 feet depth.

Conomurex persicus (Swainson, 1821)

Conomurex persicus is a marine gastropod with shells 35–75 mm wide, native to the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf, and an alien in Greek Mediterranean waters.

Conomurex luhuanus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Conomurex luhuanus is a stromboid species with a conoidal shell that is often mistaken for a cone snail.

Persististrombus granulatus (Swainson, 1822)

Persististrombus granulatus is an American gastropod species that belongs to the Strombidae family.

Harpago chiragra (Linnaeus, 1758)

Harpago chiragra is an Indo-Pacific marine snail with a thick shell, eaten by humans, and its shell used in shellcraft.

Lentigo lentiginosus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Lentigo lentiginosus, the silver conch, is an Indo-Pacific strombid sea snail collected locally for food and its shell.

Canarium mutabile (Swainson, 1821)

Canarium mutabile is a species with shell sizes 15–45 mm, found across parts of the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, and Pacific Ocean.

Canarium urceus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Canarium urceus is a stromboid sea snail with a characteristic nodulated shell, found only in Singapore and the South China Sea.

Canarium labiatum (Röding, 1798)

Canarium labiatum is a species with shells 20–50 mm wide, found in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific.

Laevistrombus canarium (Linnaeus, 1758)

Laevistrombus canarium (dog conch) is an edible Indo-Pacific marine strombid gastropod used as a pollution bioindicator.

Gibberulus gibberulus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Gibberulus gibberulus is a marine gastropod species with a distinctively marked shell found across the Indo-Pacific.

Macrostrombus costatus (Gmelin, 1791)

Macrostrombus costatus, the milk conch, is a large Caribbean and Atlantic sea snail with a thick, light cream shell.

Titanostrombus galeatus (Swainson, 1823)

Titanostrombus galeatus is a large eastern Pacific strombid conch, edible and historically used as a wind instrument.

Related Families

Cypraeidae 60 species Littorinidae 43 species Naticidae 25 species Calyptraeidae 17 species Cymatiidae 15 species Cassidae 14 species Ovulidae 12 species Tonnidae 7 species

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