WoRMS taxon details

Lentigo lentiginosus (Linnaeus, 1758)

565356 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:565356)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Strombus lentiginosus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 743 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Lentigo lentiginosus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=565356 on 2026-09-04
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2011-03-20 10:48:21Z
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2026-06-22 13:46:05Z
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Nomenclature

original description (of Strombus lentiginosus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 743 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Lambis rana Röding, 1798) 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. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details] 

Other

additional source Fowler, O. (2016). Seashells of the Kenya coast. ConchBooks: Harxheim. Pp. 1–170.
page(s): 29, pl. 15, fig. 15 [details] 

additional source Liverani V. (2014) The superfamily Stromboidea. Addenda and corrigenda. In: G.T. Poppe, K. Groh & C. Renker (eds), <i>A conchological iconography</i>. pp. 1-54, pls 131-164. Harxheim: Conchbooks. [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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English silver conch [from synonym]  [details]
German Silber-Flügelschnecke [from synonym]Silber-Fechterschnecke [from synonym]  [details]
Japanese イボソデガイ  [details]