Canarium urceus

Canarium urceus

Five views of a shell of Canarium urceus

Five views of a different form of Canarium urceus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Stromboidea
Family:	Strombidae
Genus:	Canarium
Species:	C. urceus
Binomial name
*Canarium urceus* (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms^[1]
Strombus anatellus Duclos, P.L. in Chenu, J.C., 1844 Strombus muricatus Watson, R.B., 1885 Strombus reticulatus Link, H.F., 1807 Strombus urceus Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym)

Canarium urceus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.^[1]

Subspecies

There are two subspecies :

Canarium urceus incisum (W. Wood, 1828)
Canarium urceus urceus (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonyms : Canarium ustulatum Schumacher, 1817; Strombus anatellus Duclos in Chenu, 1844; Strombus urceus orrae Abbott, 1960; Strombus ustulatus (Schumacher, 1817)

The adult shell size varies between 20 mm and 70 mm.

This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar and Mozambique and in the western part of the Pacific Ocean along the New Hebrides.

1 2 Canarium urceus Linnaeus, 1758. Bouchet, P. (2010). Canarium urceus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532183 on 25 February 2011.

Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testaces marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
Walls, J.G. (1980). Conchs, tibias and harps. A survey of the molluscan families Strombidae and Harpidae. T.F.H. Publications Ltd, Hong Kong

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