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Tridentarius dentatus

Tridentarius dentatus
Strombus-dentatus-001.jpg
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
Synonyms
  • Strombus dentatus Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym)
  • Strombus samar Dillwyn, 1817
  • Strombus samarensis Reeve, 1851
  • Strombus tridentatus Gmelin, 1791

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.


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