Doxander vittatus

Doxander vittatus
Five views of a shell of Doxander vittatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Stromboidea
Family: Strombidae
Genus: Doxander
Species: D. vittatus
Binomial name
Doxander vittatus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
  • Doxander vittatus australis Schröter, J.S., 1805
  • Rostellaria sinuata Perry, G., 1811
  • Strombus australis Schröter, 1805
  • Strombus elatus Anton, 1839
  • Strombus sulcatus Holten, 1802
  • Strombus vittatus Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym)

Doxander vittatus, common name the vitate conch, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.[1]

Subspecies

There are three subspecies :

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indo-Pacific off Fiji and also in the South China Sea.

Description

The adult shell size varies between 35 mm and 100 mm.

Phylogeny

In 2006, Latiolais and colleagues proposed a cladogram (a tree of descent) that attempts to show the phylogenetic relationships of 34 species within the family Strombidae. The authors analysed 31 species in the genus Strombus including Doxander vittatus (referred to as Strombus vittatus in their analysis), and three species in the allied genus Lambis. The cladogram was based on DNA sequences of both nuclear histone H3 and mitochondrial cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) protein-coding gene regions. In this proposed phylogeny, Strombus vittatus, Strombus canarium (= Laevistrombus canarium) and Strombus epidromis (= Labiostrombus epidromis) are closely related and appear to share a common ancestor.[2]

References

Wikispecies has information related to: Strombus vittatus
  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2011). Doxander vittatus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=564521 on 2011-03-29
  2. 1 2 Latiolais, J. M.; Taylor, M. S; Roy, K.; Hellberg, M. E. (2006). "A molecular phylogenetic analysis of strombid gastropod morphological diversity" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (Elsevier) 41 (2): 436–444. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.05.027. PMID 16839783.

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