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Strombus

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Strom´bus
n.1.(Zool.) A genus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing. It includes many large and handsome species commonly called conch shells, or conchs. See Conch.
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Noun1.Strombus - type genus of the family StrombidaeStrombus - type genus of the family Strombidae
genus Strombus
mollusk genus - a genus of mollusks
family Strombidae, Strombidae - the family of conchs
conch - any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip
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Other negative effects of ocean acidification have been demonstrated in various species, including decreased growth in the sea urchins Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus and Echinometra mathaei and the gastropod Strombus luhuanus (Shirayama & Thornton 2005), and reduced fertilization success in the sea urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma (Havenhand et al.
Early larval development of the Sydney rock oyster Saccostrea ... by Watson, Sue-Ann; Southgate, Paul C.; Tyler, Paul A.; Peck, Lloyd S. / Journal of Shellfish Research
Queen Conch' neu 'Pink Conch' ydi'r enw Saesneg, a Strombus gigas ydi'r enw gwyddonol.
Cyfrinach y gragen dro; BYD NATUR by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Byline: DECLAN VARLEY ONLOOKERS watch as French factory ship the Strombus, with 27 crew on board, burns in Galway Bay.
FIREMEN SAVE BLAZE SHIP by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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