| Hawk-wing conch | |
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| Two views of shells of the hawk-wing conch, Lobatus raninus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Stromboidea |
| Family: | Strombidae |
| Genus: | Lobatus |
| Species: | L. raninus |
| Binomial name | |
| Lobatus raninus (Gmelin, 1791) |
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Lobatus raninus, common name the hawk-wing conch, is a species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.[1]
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The maximum recorded shell length is 121 mm[2] or up to 130 mm.[3]
Like other species in the same genus, Lobatus raninus has a robust, somewhat heavy and solid shell, with a distinct stromboid notch. The body whorl is dorsally ornamented by characteristic coarse spiral ridges.[3] The posterior expansion of the flaring outer lip is always lower than the spire.[3]
The color is brownish, with several disperse white spots. Both inner and outer lips are cream or white.[3]
A cladogram based on sequences of nuclear histone H3 gene and mitochondrial cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) gene showing phylogenetic relationships of (32 analyzed) species in the genus Strombus and Lambis, including Strombus raninus, was proposed by Latiolais et al (2006)[4]:
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This species is distributed in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles.
S. raninus lives near seagrass beds, usually in shallow water.[3] Minimum recorded depth is 0.3 m.[2] Maximum recorded depth is 55 m.[2]
Like other species of the genus Strombus, S. raninus is known to be an herbivore.