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The Stomach-Footed Mollusks, Class Gastropoda,
Subclass Prosobranchia, Part 3
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Superfamily Strombacea: Predominantly large mollusks with
heavy shells with flared lips, siphonal canals.
Family Xenophoridae: Struthiolaria, Aporrhais, the
Conchs: Lambis, Strombis.
Genus Lambis:
| Lambis cochata cochata, Orange Spider Conch. To 200
cm. Curved arms... Indian Ocean. Herbivorous. Mauritius 2016. |
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| Lambis lambis (Linnaeus 1758),
Spider Conch. To 29 cm, ave. 18 cm. Aperture smooth, and small nodules make
up the spire. Longer "arms" on females. Indo-West Pacific, including the Red
Sea. Mauritius 2016. Di pix |
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Genus Strombus:
| Strombus alatus, the Florida Fighting Conch.
Here fighting after death so it seems with a Queen Conch. most 2
1/3 to 3 1/2 inches. To five inches maximum. Shells with large
knobs as last whorl of spires. Opening reddish orange in life. Head
mottled brown, with long whitish eye stalks, large white ended
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| Strombus gigas, the Queen Conch. 6-9 inches
typically, to 12 in. maximum. Have large shells bearing a short
conical spire with blunt spikes. Shells orangish, often covered
with algae. Opening rosy pink. Covered by a claw-like operculum.
Head gray with long tentacled eyes. Live in Seagrass beds,
cultured for aquariums. Below, a two inch cultured individual, an
adult shell occupied by a large hermit crab in Cozumel, and typical
in-the-wild appearance in Belize. |
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