Lambis Explained
Lambis is a genus of large sea snails sometimes known as spider conchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conch family.[1]
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.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Lambis include:
- Species brought into synonymy :
- Lambis adamii : synonym of Lambis lambis
- Lambis aratrum Röding, 1798: synonym of Euprotomus aratrum (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
- Lambis arthritica : synonym of Harpago arthriticus
- Lambis aurantia : synonym of Lambis crocata
- Lambis bryonia (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Lambis truncata ([Lightfoot], 1786)
- Lambis bulla Röding, 1798: synonym of Euprotomus bulla (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
- Lambis carinata Röding, 1798: synonym of Margistrombus marginatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis carnaria Röding, 1798: synonym of Persististrombus latus (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Thetystrombus latus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Lambis carnea Röding, 1798: synonym of Persististrombus latus (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Thetystrombus latus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Lambis cerea Röding, 1798: synonym of Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis chiragra : synonym of Harpago chiragra
- Lambis cristinae : synonym of Lambis scorpius indomaris Abbott, 1961 (hybrid of L. scorpius indomaris x L. lambis)
- Lambis curruca Röding, 1798: synonym of Tricornis tricornis ([Lightfoot], 1786)
- Lambis decora Röding, 1798: synonym of Conomurex decorus (Röding, 1798)
- Lambis digitata : synonym of Ophioglossolambis digitata
- Lambis flammeus Link, 1807: synonym of Conomurex persicus (Swainson, 1821)
- Lambis fragilis Röding, 1798: synonym of Terestrombus fragilis (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
- Lambis gibbosa Röding, 1798: synonym of Gibberulus gibberulus gibbosus (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
- Lambis harpago Röding, 1798: synonym of Harpago chiragra (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis hermaphrodita Röding, 1798: synonym of Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis indomaris : synonym of Lambis scorpius indomaris Abbott, 1961
- Lambis labiata Röding, 1798: synonym of Canarium labiatum (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
- Lambis laciniata Röding, 1798: synonym of Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis lamboides Röding, 1798: synonym of Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis lobata Röding, 1798: synonym of Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis lobata Röding, 1798 (: 65): synonym of Sinustrombus sinuatus ([Lightfoot], 1786)
- Lambis maculata Röding, 1798: synonym of Lambis lambis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis picta Röding, 1798: synonym of Sinustrombus latissimus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis pipa Röding, 1798: synonym of Lentigo pipus (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
- Lambis plicata Röding, 1798: synonym of Dolomena plicata (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
- Lambis rana Röding, 1798: synonym of Lentigo lentiginosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis reticulata Link, 1807: synonym of Canarium labiatum (Röding, 1798) (uncertain synonym)
- Lambis rugosa (G. B. Sowerby II, 1842): synonym of Harpago chiragra rugosus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1842)
- Lambis sebae : synonym of Lambis truncata sebae (Kiener, 1843)
- Lambis sowerbyi : synonym of Lambis truncata sowerbyi (Mörch, 1872)
- Lambis turturella Röding, 1798: synonym of Laevistrombus turturella (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
- Lambis undulata Röding, 1798: synonym of Harpago chiragra (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis velum Röding, 1798: synonym of Lobatus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Aliger gallus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Lambis violacea : synonym of Ophioglossolambis violacea
- Lambis vomer Röding, 1798: synonym of Euprotomus vomer (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
- Lambis wheelwhrighti Greene, 1978: synonym of Lambis arachnoides Shikama, 1971
References
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp.
Notes and References
- 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" . accessed 27 September 2010.
