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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStrombus lentiginosus Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 215373

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGastropoda (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaenogastropoda (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLittorinimorpha (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStromboidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStrombidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStrombus (Genus)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted (original combination)
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLentigo lentiginosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLentigo Jousseaume, 1886
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorStrombus Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorsilver conch  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution 
From other sources
Indian Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorAldabra [details]
Madagascar
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMadagascar [details]
Mauritius
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMauritius [details]
Tanzania
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTanzania [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (107 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
Note 
From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDescription Solid lumpy shell, up to 10 cm, with large nodules on shoulders and spiral rows of smaller nodules on body whorl. Widely flaring lip with short siphonal canal and a deep channelled anal canal. White exterior marked by variable brown, purple and black blotches. Habitat: shallow sand near coral reefs. Distribution: W Indian Ocean to C Pacific Ocean. Regional names: Kis. Chuwali. (Richmond, 1997). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215373
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2001-12-09 13:54:23Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2011-03-20 10:48:21Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Strombus lentiginosus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215373 on 2013-12-18
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