| Strawberry conch | |
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| A shell of the Strawberry conch, Conomurex luhuanus. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Stromboidea |
| Family: | Strombidae |
| Genus: | Conomurex |
| Species: | C. luhuanus |
| Binomial name | |
| Conomurex luhuanus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Strombus luhuanus Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Conomurex luhuanus, common name the Strawberry conch, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. [1]
The shell of C. luhuanus ranges from a more common length of 5 cm, to a maximum length of 8 cm.[2]
C. luhuanus is often mistaken for a Cone snail, mainly because of the conoidal outline of its shell, which is relatively unusual among the Strombidae. Its stromboid notch, though not as conspicuous as observed in many species that used to belong to Strombus (such as Lentigo lentiginosus), is deep and easily distinguished. The interior may be slightly lirate.
The external color of the shell may be either white with an orange, brown/tan pattern of blotches, or completely brown/white. The interior is usually colored strong orange, red or pink, and the inner lip border is black or chocolate brown.[2]
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 that used to belong in the genus Strombus and Lambis, including Conomurex luhuanus (synonym :Strombus luhuanus), was proposed by Latiolais et al (2006)[3] All species in this cladogram are still given under their original names in Strombus and Lambis :
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