Aliger

Aliger is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.^[1]

Aliger
Aliger gigas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Stromboidea
Family:	Strombidae
Genus:	Aliger Thiele, 1929
Type species
Strombus gallus Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[1]
Eustrombus Wenz, 1940 Strombus (Aliger) Thiele, 1929 (original rank) Strombus (Eustrombus) Wenz, 1940

Aliger was previously a synonym of Lobatus Swainson, 1837^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Aliger include:

• †Aliger dominator (Pilsbry & Johnson, 1917)
• †Aliger galliformis (Pilsbry & Johnson, 1917)
• Aliger gallus (Linnaeus, 1758):^[3]
• Aliger gigas (Linnaeus, 1758)

Species brought into synonymy:

• Aliger costatus (Gmelin, 1791):^[4] synonym of Lobatus costatus (Gmelin, 1791)