Lentigo pipus

Lentigo pipus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Strombidae
Genus:	Lentigo
Species:	L. pipus
Binomial name
Lentigo pipus (Röding, 1798)
Synonyms[1]
Lambis pipus Röding, 1798 (basionym) Strombus adustus Reeve, 1851 Strombus exustus Swainson, 1822 Strombus papilio Dillwyn, 1817 Strombus pipus Röding, 1798

Lentigo pipus, the elegant conch, is a species of Conch sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.^[1]

The shell size varies between 35 mm and 85 mm.

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This species is distributed in the Indo-West Pacific along the Mascarene Basin and the Philippines.

• Walls, J.G. (1980). Conchs, tibias and harps. A survey of the molluscan families Strombidae and Harpidae. T.F.H. Publications Ltd, Hong Kong

• "Lentigo pipus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 28 March 2011.

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