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Today's snail: Strombus pugilis | Fighting Conch
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Today's snail: Strombus pugilis | Fighting Conch
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Taxonomy Tournament: Gastropods
Strombidae. This family is made up of true conches, which have long eye-stalks and move in a leaping motion, and are used by humans as food, or their shells for decoration.
Conidae. This family is made up of cone snails, which hunt prey by launching their tooth from their mouth like a harpoon and injecting them with venom.
Which clade of animals is better?
Strombidae
Conidae
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Conch (Strombus sp.) off the coast of the Philippines
Ludovic
The splendid “Dog Conch”
An edible species, but I certainly couldn’t bring myself to kill one.
Laevistrombus canarium
15/06/22
Arthritic spider conch (Harpago arthriticus)
Photo by FloT974
The conch (Strombea): in pictures after nature with descriptions
plate explanations here
By Kuster, HC (Heinrich Carl), 1807-1876
Chemnitz, Johann Hieronymus, 1730-1800 Martini, Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm, 1729-1778
Publication info Nuremberg: Publisher of Bauer and Raspe (Julius Merz) in 1845.
Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries
Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library
Today's snail: Tridentarius dentatus | Toothed Conch
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