Ophioglossolambis digitata

Ophioglossolambis digitata
	Shell of Ophioglossolambis digitata at the Natural History Museum of Guangxi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Strombidae
Genus:	Ophioglossolambis
Species:	O. digitata
Binomial name
	Ophioglossolambis digitata; (Perry, 1811)
Synonyms[1][2]
	Lambis digitata (Perry, 1811); Pterocera crocea Reeve, 1842; Pterocera elongata Swainson, 1841; Pterocera novemdactylis Deshayes, 1843; Strombus digitatus Perry, 1811 (basionym);

Ophioglossolambis digitata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion and Tanzania.

Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp.
Walls, J.G. (1980). Conchs, tibias and harps. A survey of the molluscan families Strombidae and Harpidae. T.F.H. Publications Ltd, Hong Kong.
Dekkers A.M. (2012) A new genus related to the genus Lambis Röding, 1798 (Gastropoda: Strombidae) from the Indian Ocean. Gloria Maris 51(2-3): 68-74. [8 April 2012; title page erroneously dated 11 March] [

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