Lobatus gallus
| Lobatus gallus | |
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| A shell of the rooster conch, Lobatus gallus. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Strombidae |
| Genus: | Lobatus |
| Species: | L. gallus |
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Lobatus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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| Synonyms | |
Lobatus gallus, previously known as Strombus gallus, common name the rooster conch or rooster-tail conch, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.
This species is found from southeast Florida and Bermuda through the West Indies and south to Brazil.
The average shell length of this species is about 12.5 cm.
The maximum recorded shell length is 197 mm.
The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0.3 m.; the maximum recorded depth is 82 m.
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