Doxander vittatus

Doxander vittatus, the vitate snail, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.^[1]

Doxander vittatus
Five views of a shell of Doxander vittatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Strombidae
Genus:	Doxander
Species:	D. vittatus
Binomial name
Doxander vittatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
Doxander vittatus australis Schröter, 1805 Rostellaria sinuata Perry, 1811 Strombus australis Schröter, 1805 Strombus elatus Anton, 1839 Strombus sulcatus Holten, 1802 Strombus vittatus Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym)

Subspecies

There are five subspecies :

• Doxander vittatus vittatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Doxander vittatus apicatus (Man in 't Veld & Visser, 1993)
• Doxander vittatus entropi (Man in 't Veld & Visser, 1993)
• Doxander vittatus japonicus (Reeve, 1851)
• Doxander vittatus campbelli (Campbelli, Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834)

Distribution

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

Description

The adult shell size varies between 35 mm and 100 mm.

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 2006, Latiolais and 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 Doxander vittatus (referred to as Strombus vittatus 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 vittatus, Strombus canarium (= Laevistrombus canarium) and Strombus epidromis (= Labiostrombus epidromis) are closely related and appear to share a common ancestor.^[2]