Strombus gallus (rooster-tail conch) 1 (24940915992)
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Description: Strombus gallus Linnaeus, 1758 - rooster-tail conch (abapertural view) (public display, Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA) This species is also known as Lobatus gallus. The gastropods (snails & slugs) are a group of molluscs that occupy marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments. Most gastropods have a calcareous external shell (the snails). Some lack a shell completely, or have reduced internal shells (the slugs & sea slugs & pteropods). Most members of the Gastropoda are marine. Most marine snails are herbivores (algae grazers) or predators/carnivores. The rooster-tail conch shown above is part of the Caribbean Province: "The warm coral waters of the Caribbean stretching from northern Brazil to the Gulf of Mexico and northward adjacent to the Bahamas and Bermuda, contain a fauna of about 800 colorful species of common, shallow-water mollusks. The pink, or queen, conch and the sunrise tellin are typical." [info. from museum signage] Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Gastropoda, Strombidae Locality: unrecorded/undisclosed/unspecified More info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobatus_gallus. Date: 4 January 2016, 11:47. Source: Strombus gallus (rooster-tail conch) 1. Author: James St. John.
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- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Gastropoda (snails)
- Caenogastropoda (An order of snails)
- Littorinimorpha
- Stromboidea
- Strombidae
- Aliger
- Aliger gallus
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