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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.[3]
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.[4]
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 arthriticus (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
- ^ Sepkoski, J. J. Jr. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 95.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2011). Lambis Röding, 1798. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2011-04-23
- ^ Stone J. R. (last change 15 September 2004). "Projecting into the past to determine ancestral forms" Archived 2008-12-03 at the Wayback Machine. 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.