Canarium labiatum

Canarium labiatum, the Samar conch, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.^[1]

Canarium labiatum
Five views of a shell of Canarium labiatum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Strombidae
Genus:	Canarium
Species:	C. labiatum
Binomial name
Canarium labiatum (Röding, 1798)
Synonyms[1]
Canarium otiolum Iredale, 1931 Lambis labiata Röding, 1798 (basionym) Lambis reticulata Link, 1807 (uncertain synonym) Strombus corrugatus Adams, A. & L.A. Reeve, 1850 Strombus labiatus (Röding, 1798) Strombus plicatus Lamarck, 1816

Description

The shell size varies between 20 mm and 50 mm.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos and Tanzania; in the Western Pacific along Southeast Australia.

Phylogeny

Strombus maculatus Strombus mutabilis Strombus microurceus Strombus labiatus Strombus fragilis Strombus urceus Strombus dentatus Strombus canarium Strombus vittatus Strombus epidromis Strombus fusiformis Strombus haemastoma Strombus wilsoni

Part of the phylogeny and relationships of Strombus species, according to Latiolais et al. (2006)[2]

In the year 2006, colleagues proposed a cladogram 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 labiatum (referred to as Strombus labiatus in their analysis), 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 labiatus (= Canarium labiatum) and Strombus microurceus are closely related and appear to share a common ancestor.^[2]