Species Lambis millepeda (Linnaeus, 1758)

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• Strombus millepeda Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [743] [no. 426].

  Type data:

   Holotype LS (in Linnean collection), O. Asiae; Olango Island on the east side of Cebu Island, Philippines subsequently designated.

  Type locality references:

  Abbott, R.T. 1961. The genus Lambis in the Indo-Pacific. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1(3): 147-174 [162].

  Secondary source:

   Abbott, R.T. 1961. The genus Lambis in the Indo-Pacific. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1(3): 147-174 [162].

Generic Combinations

• Lambis (Millepes) millepeda (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [154, pl. 19, fig. 3]
• Lambis millepeda (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Raven, H 2002. Notes on molluscs from NW Borneo. 1. Stromboidea (Gastropoda, Strombidae, Rostellariidae, Seraphidae). Vita Malacologica 1: 3-32 [21]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Papua New Guinea, Philippines. Common in the Sunda Islands, and might be expected to occur on the Sahul Shelf off northwestern Australia

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Abbott, R.T. 1961. The genus Lambis in the Indo-Pacific. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1(3): 147-174 [162]

Kreipl, K. & Poppe, G.T. 1999. A Conchological Iconography: The Family Strombidae. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 59 pp., 130 pls.

Link, H.F. 1807. Beschreibung der Naturalien Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Rostock : Alders Erben. [6 parts with no volume description; pp.1-50, 51-100, 101-165, 1-30, 1-38, 1-38] [110, pt. 2]

Raven, H 2002. Notes on molluscs from NW Borneo. 1. Stromboidea (Gastropoda, Strombidae, Rostellariidae, Seraphidae). Vita Malacologica 1: 3-32 [21]

Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [67, pt. 2, no. 855] (as Lambis millepeda Gmelin, in Allan 1950)

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [154]

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [102] (Thousand-footed Spider)

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