Lambis
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Lambis Temporal range: Tertiary–Recent |
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| Five views of a shell of Lambis crocata | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Stromboidea |
| Family: | Strombidae |
| Genus: |
Lambis Röding, 1798 |
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Strombus lambis Linnaeus, 1758 |
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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.
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.
Species within the genus Lambis include:
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