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The Stomach-Footed Mollusks, Class Gastropoda, Subclass Prosobranchia, Part 3

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by Bob Fenner

 

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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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Lambis truncata, Red Sea pix.

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 proboscis. 

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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