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Laevistrombus turturella

Laevistrombus turturella
Laevistrombus canarium turturella 01.JPG
Five different views of a shell of an adult L. turturella: abapertural (upper left), right lateral (center), apertural (upper right), apical (lower left) and basal (lower right)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Stromboidea
Family: Strombidae
Genus: Laevistrombus
Species: L. turturella
Binomial name
Laevistrombus turturella
(Röding, 1798)
Synonyms
Lambis turturella Röding, 1798 (original combination)
Strombus isabella Lamarck, 1822

Laevistrombus turturella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Strombidae (true conches). There are only two living species within the genus Laevistrombus; the other congener is Laevistrombus canarium, the dog conch.

There is some disagreement in the literature as to whether or not this taxon and the similar-looking Laevistrombus canarium are actually separate species. Man In 'T Veld & Turck (1998) considered that L. canarium and L. turturella are distinct (yet sympatric) species, based mainly on the shell morphology and a radula comparison. However, when Cob reviewed a number of Strombus species in 2009, examining both shell characters and anatomical data including details of the genitalia, operculum and radula, he concluded that L. turturella was simply a morphotype, and therefore a synonym of L. canarium.


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