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Definition of Strombidae
1. Noun. The family of conchs.
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Family
Group relationships: Class Gasteropoda, Class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda, Gastropoda
Member holonyms: Genus Lambis, Lambis, Genus Strombus, Strombus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strombidae
Literary usage of Strombidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"... among the Strombidae (Fig. 46), the foot is also laterally compressed, and
its ventral surface, if not displaced anteriorly, is not flat. ..."
2. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"2, sect. 1, pt. 1, pp. 1-38, 1866; pt. 2, pp. 39-299, 36 pis., 1869. 1868.
An attempt at a revision of the two families Strombidae and ..."
3. Mostly Mammals, Zoological Essays by Richard Lydekker (1903)
"... of this species the hinder extremity of the right margin of the shell is
expanded into a wing- like extension, recalling the wing-shells, or Strombidae. ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"In the Strombidae (see Fig. 99) and Buccinidae (Fig. 62) it is very large and
prominent; in Littorina it is somewhat spinulose at one side; ..."
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