Lambis

Lambis
Temporal range: Tertiary–Recent
Five views of a shell of Lambis crocata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Stromboidea
Family: Strombidae
Genus: Lambis
Röding, 1798[1]
Type species
Strombus lambis Linnaeus, 1758
Species

See text

Synonyms[2]
  • Heptadactylus Mörch, 1852
  • Millipes Mörch, 1852
  • Pterocera Lamarck, 1799

Lambis is a genus of large sea snails sometimes known as spider conchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conch family.[2]

Description

The siphonal canal is long and curved, and the apertural lip is adorned with circumapertural projections, which are fingerlike processes emanating from the edge of the shell aperture.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Lambis include:

Species brought into synonymy 

References

  1. Röding P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens conchylia sive testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. pp. [1-3], [1-8], 1-199. Hamburg. page 61.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2011). Lambis Röding, 1798. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2011-04-23
  3. Stone J. R. (last change 15 September 2004). "Projecting into the past to determine ancestral forms". accessed 27 September 2010.

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