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Conch EYE! #molluscmonday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
True Conchs (Family Strombidae)
True Conchs from אילת, ישראל on July 3, 2020 at 08:02 PM by Rafi Amar. Eye
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July 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Or if you'd like to read a free full-text paper about their exceptional visual system, there's a link here:
The marine gastropod Conomurex luhuanus (Strombidae) has high-resolution spatial vision and eyes with complex retinas
All species within the conch snail family Strombidae possess large camera-type eyes that are surprisingly well-developed compared with those found in most other gastropods. Although these eyes are kno...
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August 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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47233 ‘Strombidae’ in trainload petroleum shunts out of the platform at Inverness having recently arrived from Aberdeen. The loco only carried the name between 1988 and 1991 when it was transferred to 37421.
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April 11, 2026 at 5:55 AM
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Happy #wormwednesday
Here is a beautiful worm tube on a dog conch #Laevistrombus canarium
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December 18, 2024 at 4:26 AM
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#MolluscMonday #Strombidae sind Flügelschnecken und haben Stielaugen
March 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Strombid EYE for YOU! #molluscmonday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
True Conchs (Family Strombidae)
True Conchs from אילת, ישראל on July 3, 2020 at 08:02 PM by Rafi Amar. Eye
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March 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Everything is better with googly eyes and that includes snails. Today’s #AtoZ is S for Strombus (Strombidae), marine snails with lens-bearing eyes, excellent vision and quite the dashing personality. (1/8)

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Close up of a snail retracted into its shell. The aperture of the shell is glossy and warm orange-brown. Very nice but what draws all the attention is two blue eyes on stalks. Strombus pugilis: Florida, USA. © Squidpastry CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/266414316
March 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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You're gazing into the baby blues of a conch, a medium to large sea snail. I THINK this species is a Queen conch (Aliger gigas), common in the Caribbean.

The true conchs (Family Strombidae) have camera-type eyes with hemispherical lenses, some of the most complex eyes in gastropods.
a close up of a person 's foot next to a dog 's head .
Alt: The camera zooms in on a conch shell, revealing two very human-looking eyes on the end of slimy eyestalks on a snail-like conch. The body is a dark brown, the shell is a light toast color with white accents.
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August 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Happy #FossilFriday
Here is a recent strombid, #Laevistrombus canarium on a sample of Jurassic shale with remnants of a few broken fossil ferns.

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February 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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"The type locality and the lectotype of Strombus lambis Linnaeus, 1758 (Caenogastropoda: Strombidae)" has been published in the #JournalofConchologh #jconch #conchsoc #Strombidae
September 22, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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#Canarium mutabile?
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June 25, 2024 at 2:58 AM
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Strombidae isn’t the only family of snails with eyes on stalks. There’s a whole related group of googly eyed sea snails! This is Terebellum (Seraphsidae). There are others. (4/8)

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Anterior view of a snail in an almost cylindrical shell. Two pale eyes on stalks are looking upwards. Terebellum terebellum (Seraphsidae): Cebu, Philippines. © Albert Kang CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/98837430
March 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Harpago (Harpago arthriticus) is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. Found around Indian Ocean Kenya, Madagascar, the Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles and Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines.
Harpago (Harpago arthriticus) reef in Maldives. Picture by Paul Montgomery Harpago (Harpago arthriticus) reef in Maldives. Picture by Paul Montgomery
March 25, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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Here is a beautiful strombid, #Lambis from Sri Lanka
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October 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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🐚🌴 During my first trip to the Caribbean in 2007, I still remember the excitement I felt when I found my first seashells on the beach. I was amazed and fascinated by their diversity. ✈️☀️
#Lobatus raninus has a small #shell, from 5 to 10 cm, from the #Strombidae family.
November 16, 2024 at 4:11 AM
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S is for Stombus and Strombidae, notable for many things but we focused on their googly eyes. (No pun inten...oh, who am I kidding.)

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Everything is better with googly eyes and that includes snails. Today’s #AtoZ is S for Strombus (Strombidae), marine snails with lens-bearing eyes, excellent vision and quite the dashing personality. (1/8)

Pic: © Squidpastry CC BY-NC
Close up of a snail retracted into its shell. The aperture of the shell is glossy and warm orange-brown. Very nice but what draws all the attention is two blue eyes on stalks. Strombus pugilis: Florida, USA. © Squidpastry CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/266414316
March 29, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Strombe-araignée arthritique est un drôle de nom commun pour un si joli #coquillage d' #OcéanIndien ! 😃

LE GRANCHÉ Philippe, MÜLLER Yves in #DORIS, 05/06/2025:
Harpago arthriticus (Röding, 1798), doris.ffessm.fr/ref/specie/5...

#biodiversity #shell #Mollusca #biodiversite #gastropoda #Strombidae
June 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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February 9, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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Un joli #mollusque qui porte un nom commun pas si joli :
le #strombe-araignée chiragre (à vous de savoir ce qu'est la chiragre :-P)

LE GRANCHÉ Philippe, MÜLLER Yves in : #DORIS, 18/03/2026 :
Harpago chiragra (Linnaeus, 1758), doris.ffessm.fr/ref/specie/3...

#biodiversite #Strombidae
May 8, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Today in marine invertebrates
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Complex Vision in Strawberry Conchs
True conchs in the family Strombidae have large, camera-type eyes that are extra well-developed and more complex when compared to the eyes of other gastropods. Strawberry Conch, Conomurex luhuanus. Ph...
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March 23, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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The operculum is based on protein and is sometimes flexible. This Charonia (Charoniidae) has a protein operculum.

So does this Strombus (Strombidae) - that serrated leaf-like structure on the left. I'll talk about strombs at some time. They're strange! (3/8)

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Large snail with a tall spire. The shell is marked with numerous dark chevrons. The siphon and tentacles are emerging from the shell to the left. The body is covered in leopard print. There is a big operculum with concentric growth rings attached to the tail. Charonia tritonis: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. © uwkwaj CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/184046569 Very miffed-looking snail half-emerged from the shell. It is in someone's hand and the operculum strongly resembles a leaf -- it is leaf-shaped with a central ridge and serrations down one side. Strombus pugilis: Florida, USA. © Squidpastry CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/310869616
March 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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They belong to family Volutidae, which includes some vividly patterned shells. Melo and Cymbiola are tucked away in their own little group. They are found in SE Asia and Australia. (2/8)

Pics: © henrycarrick © Tim Karnasuta CC BY-NC © J. Martin Crossley CC BY-NC-SA
A very big snail on a pale, sandy sea floor. The shell has rolled over, almost certainly toppling because of the snail's action. The animal is black and leathery and is wrapped around a spider shell (a type of stromb, fam Strombidae). The Melo is part way through eating the stromb. The tube tucked inside the curved Melo shell is the siphon. Melo amphora: Western Australia © henrycarrick CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/239662381 Underwater photo of another species of Melo. This is crawling across a sea floor covered in lots of shell fragments and is heading just to the right of the camera. The shell is rounded and dark with vague, over-lapping triangle markings. The siphon is projecting straight out and combined with the bulky body and foot, the whole animal looks like an Art Nouveau tank trundling across the sand. The markings are white blotches on a orange-brown background. Melo miltonis: Western Australia © Tim Karnasuta CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/259321373 This is a different genus closely related to Melo.The shell is roughly the same shape as Melo -- rounded with a low spire -- but is more strongly marked. The whorls have a distinct shoulder, so are more architectural than the curved Melo, and are coloured light brown with black wiggly lines arranged in bands. Between them are bands with white dots. The foot is similarly decorated -- it's grey with black dots and a distinct yellow edge. Cymbiola nivosa: Western Australia © J. Martin Crossley CC BY-NC-SA https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/261209193
June 1, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Significado de #cambute En El Salvador es un Caracol de mar grande de concha amarilla y de buenas carnes, comestibles. Su nombre científico es Lobatus galeatus y es de la familia Strombidae. Con sus conchas se hace el pututu que es un instrumento de viento. Es propio.. cambute
December 31, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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Significado de #lambi Es el nombre de un molusco con concha, también llamado caracola, caracol pala, botuto, caracol rosado, jututu o caracola de mar. Su nombre científico es Strombus gigas (o también Lobatus gigas) y pertenece a la familia Strombidae. Con su concha se.. lambi
December 3, 2024 at 6:56 AM
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https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/doi/10.1242/jeb.243927/275933/The-marine-gastropod-Conomurex-luhuanus-Strombidae
January 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM