Strombus costatus
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| Colored drawings of a shell of Aliger costatus from Kiener, 1843 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Strombidae |
| Genus: | Lobatus |
| Species: | L. costatus |
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Lobatus costatus (Gmelin, 1791) |
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Lobatus costatus, commonly known as the milk conch, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea; the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles; in the Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to East Brazil.
The maximum recorded shell length is 231 mm.
Minimum recorded depth is 2 m. Maximum recorded depth is 55 m.
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