Strombus alatus
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| Front view of Strombus alatus showing the snout in front and stalked eyes behind, one of which reaches out through the stromboid notch in the shell | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Stromboidea |
| Family: | Strombidae |
| Genus: | Strombus |
| Species: | S. alatus |
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Strombus alatus (Gmelin, 1791) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Strombus crenulatus Röding, 1798 |
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clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Strombus crenulatus Röding, 1798
Strombus pyrulatus Lamarck, 1822
Strombus sulcatus Anton, 1838
Strombus dubius Sowerby II, 1842
Strombus undulatus Küster, 1845
Strombus alatus, common name the "Florida fighting conch" is a species of medium-sized warm-water sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.
This conch occurs in the Western Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina throughout Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Texas and the east coast of Mexico.
The shell can be as large as 112 millimetres (4.4 in).
This species is closely similar to Strombus pugilis, the West Indian fighting conch, which has a more southerly range. Strombus alatus shells have less prominent subsutural spines and a slightly more projected outer lip. Some scientists have treated the two as distinct species; others as subspecies. In an extensive study of the Stromboidea in 2005, Simone provisionally treated these as distinct species, but observed that "no spectacular morphological difference was found [and] all related differences, even those of the genital system, can be regarded as extreme of variation of a single, wide distributed, variable species."
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