Canarium (gastropod)

Canarium
Five views of a shell of Canarium erythrinum
A variety of live Canarium sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Stromboidea
Family: Strombidae
Genus: Canarium
Schumacher, 1817[1]
Type species
Canarium urceus urceus f. ustulatus
Species

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Synonyms[2]
  • Fusistrombus Bandel, 2007
  • Hawaiistrombus Bandel, 2007
  • Strombidea Swainson, 1840
  • Strombus (Canarium)

Canarium is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.[2]

  1. ^ Schumacher (1817). Ess. Vers test., 66: 219.
  2. ^ a b Canarium Schumacher, 1817. WoRMS (2009). Canarium . Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=531647 on 24 March 2011 .