Lambis crocata
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| Five views of a shell of Lambis crocata | |
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| Two views of a shell of the orange spider conch (Lambis crocata) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Stromboidea |
| Family: | Strombidae |
| Genus: | Lambis |
| Species: | L. crocata |
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Lambis crocata (Link, 1807) |
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Lambis crocata, commonly known as the orange spider conch, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.
The size of an adult shell varies between 70 mm and 205 mm and it is a mixture of orange and white color.
This species is found in the Indian Ocean along the coasts of Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles and Tanzania.
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