Lambis

Lambis; Temporal range: Tertiary–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Five views of a shell of Lambis crocata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Stromboidea
Family:	Strombidae
Genus:	Lambis; Röding, 1798[1]
Type species
	Strombus lambis; Linnaeus, 1758
Species
	See text
Synonyms[2]
	Heptadactylus Mörch, 1852 ; Millipes Mörch, 1852 ; Pterocera Lamarck, 1799 ;

Lambis is a genus of large sea snails sometimes known as spider conchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conch family.[2]

Description

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.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Lambis include:

Lambis arachnoides Shikama, 1971
Lambis cristinae Bozzetti, 1999
Lambis crocata (Link, 1807)
Lambis indomaris Abbott, 1961
Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Lambis millepeda (Linnaeus, 1758)
Lambis pilsbryi Abbott, 1961
Lambis robusta (Swainson, 1821)
Lambis scorpius (Linnaeus, 1758)
Lambis sebae (Kiener, 1843)
Lambis sowerbyi (Mörch, 1872)
Lambis truncata (Humphrey, 1786)

Species brought into synonymy

Lambis adamii (Bozzetti & Cossignani, 2003) : synonym of Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Lambis aurantia (Lamarck, 1822) : synonym of Lambis crocata (Link, 1807)
Lambis arthritica Röding, 1798 : synonym of Harpago arthriticus (Röding, 1798)
Lambis chiragra (Linnaeus, 1758) : synonym of Harpago chiragra (Linnaeus, 1758)
Lambis digitata (Perry, G., 1811): synonym of Ophioglossolambis digitata (Perry, 1811)
Lambis violacea (Swainson, 1821): synonym of Ophioglossolambis violacea (Swainson, 1821)

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References

Röding P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens conchylia sive testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. pp. [1-3], [1-8], 1-199. Hamburg. page 61.
Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2011). Lambis Röding, 1798. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2011-04-23
Stone J. R. (last change 15 September 2004). "Projecting into the past to determine ancestral forms" Archived 2008-12-03 at the Wayback Machine. accessed 27 September 2010.

Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.

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[1] Röding P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens conchylia sive testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. pp. [1-3], [1-8], 1-199. Hamburg. page 61.

[WoRMS-2] Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2011). Lambis Röding, 1798. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2011-04-23

[3] Stone J. R. (last change 15 September 2004). "Projecting into the past to determine ancestral forms" Archived 2008-12-03 at the Wayback Machine. accessed 27 September 2010.