Stromboidea

• Strombidae
  • Lambis
    • Lambis crocata x lambis

History and Synonymy

2008

Kronenberg in Poppe, 2008, p. 532, pl. 211:

• Specimen from Surigao, Surigao del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines Islands, 148 mm; Coll. Barbier

Lambis crocata x lambis; hybrid form; Toliara region (formerly Tuléar), Grand Récif at Tuléar, Madagascar; 161,0 mm;Coll. Simon Piers Aiken

Lambis crocata x lambis; hybrid form; Toliara region (formerly Tuléar), Atsimo-Andrefana, southern Madagascar; 155 mm; Coll. Virgilio Liverani

Lambis crocata x lambis; hybrid form; Salar, 180 km north of Toliara (formerly Tuléar), Atsimo-Andrefana, southern Madagascar; intertidal, on grass bed; 175 mm; Coll. Ulrich Wieneke

Lambis crocata x lambis; hybrid form; Panglao Island, Bohol Province, Central Visayas Region, Philippines; tangle nets, between 40 and 80 m; 136 mm; 6/1997; Coll. Koenraad De Turck

Lambis crocata x lambis; hybrid form; Bohol Island, Bohol Province, Central Visayas Region, Philippines; 142,3 mm; Coll. Roger Clark

Comments : note that in these hybrids some lyrations are generally visible inside the aperture; Lambis lambis often have lyrae at both ends of the mouth, Lambis crocata well adult specimens often have irregular obsolete liration in the whole aperture, barely visible because the mouth is of uniform colour