Doxander vittatus

Doxander vittatus
Doxander vittatus
shell of Doxander vittatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Stromboidea
Family: Strombidae
Genus: Doxander
Species: D. vittatus
Binomial name
Doxander vittatus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
  • Doxander vittatus australis Schröter, J.S., 1805
  • Rostellaria sinuata Perry, G., 1811
  • Strombus australis Schröter, 1805
  • Strombus elatus Anton, 1839
  • Strombus sulcatus Holten, 1802
  • Strombus vittatus Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym)

Doxander vittatus, common name : the Vitate Conch, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. [1]

There are three subspecies :

  • Doxander vittatus apicatus (Man in 't Veld & Visser, 1993)
  • Doxander vittatus entropi (Man in 't Veld & Visser, 1993)
  • Doxander vittatus vittatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Contents

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indo-Pacific along Fiji and in the South China Sea.

Description

The shell size varies between 35 mm and 100 mm.

Phylogeny

In 2006, Latiolais et al. proposed a cladogram (a tree of descent) that attempts to show the phylogenetic relationships of 34 species within the family Strombidae. The authors analysed 31 species that used to belong to the genus Strombus including Strombus vittatus, and three species in the allied genus Lambis. The cladogram was based on DNA sequences of both nuclear histone H3 and mitochondrial cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) protein-coding gene regions.

In this proposed phylogeny, Strombus vittatus and Strombus canarium are closely related and appear to share a common ancestor.[2]


 Eastern Pacific and Atlantic 






Strombus gallus


Strombus gigas



Strombus costatus




Strombus raninus


Strombus peruvianus




Strombus galeus



Strombus latus






Strombus pugilis


Strombus alatus



Strombus gracilior



Strobus granulatus






Strombus bulla


Strombus aurisdianae



Strombus vomer





Strombus gibberulus


Strombus luhuanus




 Lambis 


Lambis chiragra


Lambis truncata



Lambis lambis




Strombus taurus


Strombus sinuatus











Strombus maculatus


Strombus mutabilis




Strombus microurceus


Strombus labiatus






Strombus fragilis


Strombus urceus



Strombus dentatus






Strombus canarium


Strombus vittatus



Strombus epidromis





Strombus fusiformis


Strombus haemostoma




Strombus wilsoni


References

  1. ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2011). Doxander vittatus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=564521 on 2011-03-29
  2. ^ Latiolais, J. M.; Taylor, M. S; Roy, K. & Hellberg, M. E. (2006). "A molecular phylogenetic analysis of strombid gastropod morphological diversity". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (Elsevier) 41 (2): 436–444. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.05.027. PMID 16839783. http://biology.ucsd.edu/labs/roy/PDFs/Latiolais%20et%20al.%202006%20Mol.%20Phyl.%20&%20Evol.pdf. 

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