| Strombus gracilior Temporal range: Pleistocene–Recent |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Stromboidea |
| Family: | Strombidae |
| Genus: | Strombus |
| Species: | S. gracilior |
| Binomial name | |
| Strombus gracilior G.B. Sowerby I, 1825 |
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Strombus gracilior, common names the Eastern Pacific Fighting Conch, or the Panama Fighting 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 length of the shell varies between 40 mm and 95 mm, the width may attain 50 mm. The high spire is covered with subsutural spines or pointed nodes on the shoulder of the whorls. The color of the shell is yellowish to yellowish-brown, interrupted in the middle with a lighter band. The aperture and the large outer lip is white bordered with orange-brown. The shell is covered with a thin, horn-covered periostracum.
The Fighting Conch (Strombus pugilis) from the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico is a similar species in the sculpture of the shell and in inner morphological characters. [2]
This species is can be found on sandflats and lagoons and offshore to 45 m in the Sea of Cortez along West Mexico and in the Pacific Ocean along Northern Peru.