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]
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| Five views of a shell of Lambis crocata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Stromboidea |
| Family: | Strombidae |
| Genus: | Lambis Röding, 1798[2] |
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| Strombus lambis Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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Description edit
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 edit
Species within the genus Lambis include:
- Lambis arachnoides Shikama, 1971
- Lambis crocata (Link, 1807)
- Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis lilikae Villar, 2016
- Lambis millepeda (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis montorum T. Cossignani & Lorenz, 2020
- Lambis pilsbryi Abbott, 1961
- Lambis robusta (Swainson, 1821)
- Lambis scorpius (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis truncata (Humphrey, 1786)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Lambis adamii (Bozzetti & Cossignani, 2003) : synonym of Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis aratrum Röding, 1798: synonym of Euprotomus aratrum (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
- Lambis arthritica Röding, 1798 : synonym of Harpago arthriticus (Röding, 1798)
- Lambis aurantia (Lamarck, 1822) : synonym of Lambis crocata (Link, 1807)
- Lambis bryonia (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Lambis truncata ([Lightfoot], 1786)
- Lambis bulla Röding, 1798: synonym of Euprotomus bulla (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
- Lambis carinata Röding, 1798: synonym of Margistrombus marginatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis carnaria Röding, 1798: synonym of Persististrombus latus (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Thetystrombus latus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Lambis carnea Röding, 1798: synonym of Persististrombus latus (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Thetystrombus latus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Lambis cerea Röding, 1798: synonym of Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis chiragra (Linnaeus, 1758) : synonym of Harpago chiragra (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis cristinae Bozzetti, 1999: synonym of Lambis scorpius indomaris Abbott, 1961 (hybrid of L. scorpius indomaris x L. lambis)
- Lambis curruca Röding, 1798: synonym of Tricornis tricornis ([Lightfoot], 1786)
- Lambis decora Röding, 1798: synonym of Conomurex decorus (Röding, 1798)
- Lambis digitata (Perry, G., 1811): synonym of Ophioglossolambis digitata (Perry, 1811)
- Lambis flammeus Link, 1807: synonym of Conomurex persicus (Swainson, 1821)
- Lambis fragilis Röding, 1798: synonym of Terestrombus fragilis (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
- Lambis gibbosa Röding, 1798: synonym of Gibberulus gibberulus gibbosus (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
- Lambis harpago Röding, 1798: synonym of Harpago chiragra (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis hermaphrodita Röding, 1798: synonym of Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis indomaris Abbott, 1961: synonym of Lambis scorpius indomaris Abbott, 1961
- Lambis labiata Röding, 1798: synonym of Canarium labiatum (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
- Lambis laciniata Röding, 1798: synonym of Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis lamboides Röding, 1798: synonym of Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis lobata Röding, 1798: synonym of Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis lobata Röding, 1798 (: 65): synonym of Sinustrombus sinuatus ([Lightfoot], 1786)
- Lambis maculata Röding, 1798: synonym of Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis picta Röding, 1798: synonym of Sinustrombus latissimus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis pipa Röding, 1798: synonym of Lentigo pipus (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
- Lambis plicata Röding, 1798: synonym of Dolomena plicata (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
- Lambis rana Röding, 1798: synonym of Lentigo lentiginosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis reticulata Link, 1807: synonym of Canarium labiatum (Röding, 1798) (uncertain synonym)
- Lambis rugosa (G. B. Sowerby II, 1842): synonym of Harpago chiragra rugosus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1842)
- Lambis sebae (Kiener, 1843): synonym of Lambis truncata sebae (Kiener, 1843)
- Lambis sowerbyi (Mörch, 1872): synonym of Lambis truncata sowerbyi (Mörch, 1872)
- Lambis turturella Röding, 1798: synonym of Laevistrombus turturella (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
- Lambis undulata Röding, 1798: synonym of Harpago chiragra (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis velum Röding, 1798: synonym of Lobatus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Aliger gallus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis violacea (Swainson, 1821): synonym of Ophioglossolambis violacea (Swainson, 1821)
- Lambis vomer Röding, 1798: synonym of Euprotomus vomer (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
- Lambis wheelwhrighti Greene, 1978: synonym of Lambis arachnoides Shikama, 1971
References edit
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- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.