Lambis is a genus of large sea snails sometimes known as spider conchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conch family.
Description
The siphonal canal is long and curved, and the apertural lip is adorned with circumapertural projections, which are fingerlike processes emanating from the edge of the shell aperture.
Species
Species within the genus Lambis include:
Species brought into synonymy :
- Lambis adamii : synonym of Lambis lambis
- Lambis aratrum <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Euprotomus aratrum <small>(Röding, 1798)</small> (original combination)
- Lambis arthritica : synonym of Harpago arthriticus
- Lambis aurantia : synonym of Lambis crocata
- Lambis bryonia <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>: synonym of Lambis truncata <small>([Lightfoot], 1786)</small>
- Lambis bulla <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Euprotomus bulla <small>(Röding, 1798)</small> (original combination)
- Lambis carinata <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Margistrombus marginatus <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
- Lambis carnaria <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Persististrombus latus <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>: synonym of Thetystrombus latus <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Lambis carnea <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Persististrombus latus <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>: synonym of Thetystrombus latus <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Lambis cerea <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Lambis lambis <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
- Lambis chiragra : synonym of Harpago chiragra
- Lambis cristinae : synonym of Lambis scorpius indomaris <small>Abbott, 1961</small> (hybrid of L. scorpius indomaris x L. lambis)
- Lambis curruca <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Tricornis tricornis <small>([Lightfoot], 1786)</small>
- Lambis decora <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Conomurex decorus <small>(Röding, 1798)</small>
- Lambis digitata : synonym of Ophioglossolambis digitata
- Lambis flammeus <small>Link, 1807</small>: synonym of Conomurex persicus <small>(Swainson, 1821)</small>
- Lambis fragilis <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Terestrombus fragilis <small>(Röding, 1798)</small> (original combination)
- Lambis gibbosa <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Gibberulus gibberulus gibbosus <small>(Röding, 1798)</small> (original combination)
- Lambis harpago <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Harpago chiragra <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
- Lambis hermaphrodita <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Lambis lambis <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
- Lambis indomaris : synonym of Lambis scorpius indomaris <small>Abbott, 1961</small>
- Lambis labiata <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Canarium labiatum <small>(Röding, 1798)</small> (original combination)
- Lambis laciniata <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Lambis lambis <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
- Lambis lamboides Röding, 1798: synonym of Lambis lambis <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
- Lambis lobata <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Lambis lambis <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
- Lambis lobata <small>Röding, 1798</small> (: 65): synonym of Sinustrombus sinuatus <small>([Lightfoot], 1786</small>)
- Lambis maculata <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Lambis lambis <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
- Lambis picta <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Sinustrombus latissimus <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
- Lambis pipa <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Lentigo pipus <small>(Röding, 1798)</small> (original combination)
- Lambis plicata <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Dolomena plicata <small>(Röding, 1798)</small> (original combination)
- Lambis rana <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Lentigo lentiginosus <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
- Lambis reticulata <small>Link, 1807</small>: synonym of Canarium labiatum <small>(Röding, 1798)</small> (uncertain synonym)
- Lambis rugosa <small>(G. B. Sowerby II, 1842)</small>: synonym of Harpago chiragra rugosus <small>(G. B. Sowerby II, 1842)</small>
- Lambis sebae : synonym of Lambis truncata sebae <small>(Kiener, 1843)</small>
- Lambis sowerbyi : synonym of Lambis truncata sowerbyi <small>(Mörch, 1872)</small>
- Lambis turturella <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Laevistrombus turturella <small>(Röding, 1798)</small> (original combination)
- Lambis undulata <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Harpago chiragra <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
- Lambis velum <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Lobatus gallus <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>: synonym of Aliger gallus <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
- Lambis violacea : synonym of Ophioglossolambis violacea
- Lambis vomer <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of Euprotomus vomer <small>(Röding, 1798)</small> (original combination)
- Lambis wheelwhrighti <small>Greene, 1978</small>: synonym of Lambis arachnoides <small>Shikama, 1971</small>
References
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp.