Tridentarius dentatus | |
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Tridentarius dentatus (Index Testarum Conchyliorum (1742) of Niccolò Gualtieri.) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Stromboidea |
Family: | Strombidae |
Genus: | Tridentarius |
Species: | T. dentatus |
Binomial name | |
Tridentarius dentatus Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Tridentarius dentatus, common name : the Toothed Conch, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.
The shell size varies between 19 mm and 65 mm.
This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, the Comores, Djibouti, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean in Polynesia and along Hawaii.