Lambis
| Lambis Temporal range: Tertiary–Recent | |
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| 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 | |
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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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:
- Lambis arachnoides Shikama, 1971
- Lambis cristinae Bozzetti, 1999
- Lambis crocata (Link, 1807)
- Lambis indomaris Abbott, 1961
- Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis millepeda (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis pilsbryi Abbott, 1961
- Lambis robusta (Swainson, 1821)
- Lambis scorpius (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis sebae (Kiener, 1843)
- Lambis sowerbyi (Mörch, 1872)
- Lambis truncata (Humphrey, 1786)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Lambis adamii (Bozzetti & Cossignani, 2003) : synonym of Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis aurantia (Lamarck, 1822) : synonym of Lambis crocata (Link, 1807)
- Lambis arthritica Röding, 1798 : synonym of Harpago arthritica (Röding, 1798)
- Lambis chiragra (Linnaeus, 1758) : synonym of Harpago chiragra (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis digitata (Perry, G., 1811): synonym of Ophioglossolambis digitata(Perry, 1811)
- Lambis violacea (Swainson, 1821): synonym of Ophioglossolambis violacea (Swainson, 1821)
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2011). Lambis Röding, 1798. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205790 on 2011-04-23
- ↑ Stone J. R. (last change 15 September 2004). "Projecting into the past to determine ancestral forms". accessed 27 September 2010.
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.