Living Strombidae
Aliger gallus
Size 120 - 197 mm
Synonims
Linnaeus, Strombus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Lambis velum (Röding, 1798)
Strombus solitaris (Perry, 1811)
Common names
rooster-tail conch
Distribution
from southeast Florida and Bermuda through the West Indies and south to Brazil.
Original description
Carolus Linnaeus, 1758, “Systema Natura, Stockholm, 1758.
S. testae labro dilatato: antice mucronato longissimo, dorso coronato, cauda recta.
Strombus shell margin wide: frontally very long protuberance, crown dorsum, straight tail.
Description
Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm
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