''Canarium fusiforme'' is a species of

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, a

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mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.

Description

Distribution

Phylogeny

In 2006, Latiolais and colleagues proposed a cladogram (a

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) that attempts to show the phylogenetic relationships of 34 species within the family Strombidae. The authors analysed 31 species in the genus '' Strombus'' including ''Canarium fusiforme'' (referred to as ''Strombus fusiformis'' in their analysis), and three species in the allied genus ''

Lambis ''Lambis'' is a genus of large sea snails sometimes known as spider conchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conch family.Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2011)Lambis Röding, 1798 Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...

''. The cladogram was based on DNA sequences of both nuclear

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and mitochondrial cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) protein-coding gene regions. In this proposed phylogeny, ''Strombus haemastoma'' (= ''

Canarium haemastoma ''Canarium scalariforme'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.MolluscaBase (2018). Canarium scalariforme (Duclos, 1833). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://ww ...

'') and ''Strombus fusiformis'' are closely related and appear to share a common ancestor.

References

Strombidae Gastropods described in 1842 {{Strombidae-stub