Lambis

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]

Lambis
Temporal range: Tertiary–Recent
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

Type species
Strombus lambis
Species

See text

Synonyms[2]
  • Heptadactylus Mörch, 1852
  • Millipes Mörch, 1852
  • Pterocera Lamarck, 1799

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:

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
  1. 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. Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2011). Lambis Röding, 1798. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2011-04-23
  3. 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.


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