Definition of Strombidae

1. Noun. The family of conchs.

Exact synonyms: Family Strombidae
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Family
Group relationships: Class Gasteropoda, Class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda, Gastropoda
Member holonyms: Genus Lambis, Lambis, Genus Strombus, Strombus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Strombidae

Strindberg
Strindbergian
Strine
Strix
Strix aluco
Strix nebulosa
Strix occidentalis
Strix varia
Strizostedion vitreum glaucum
Strobilomyces
Strobilomyces floccopus
Stroh violin
Stroheim
Stroke City
Stromateidae
Strombidae (current term)
Stromboli
Strombolian
Strombus
Strombus gigas
Strong Island
Strongylodon
Strongylodon macrobotrys
Strontian
Stroop effect
Strophanthus kombe
Stropharia
Stropharia ambigua
Stropharia hornemannii
Stropharia rugoso-annulata

Literary usage of Strombidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"... among the Strombidae (Fig. 46), the foot is also laterally compressed, and its ventral surface, if not displaced anteriorly, is not flat. ..."

2. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"2, sect. 1, pt. 1, pp. 1-38, 1866; pt. 2, pp. 39-299, 36 pis., 1869. 1868. An attempt at a revision of the two families Strombidae and ..."

3. Mostly Mammals, Zoological Essays by Richard Lydekker (1903)
"... of this species the hinder extremity of the right margin of the shell is expanded into a wing- like extension, recalling the wing-shells, or Strombidae. ..."

4. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"In the Strombidae (see Fig. 99) and Buccinidae (Fig. 62) it is very large and prominent; in Littorina it is somewhat spinulose at one side; ..."

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