Tridentarius dentatus

Tridentarius dentatus
	Tridentarius dentatus shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Stromboidea
Family:	Strombidae
Genus:	Tridentarius
Species:	T. dentatus
Binomial name
	Tridentarius dentatus; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	Strombus dentatus Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym); Strombus samar Dillwyn, 1817; Strombus samarensis Reeve, 1851; Strombus tridentatus Gmelin, 1791;

Tridentarius dentatus, common name : the Toothed Conch, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.[1]

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, the Comores, Djibouti, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean in Polynesia and along Hawaii.

Tridentarius dentatus from Index Testarum Conchyliorum (1742) by Niccolò Gualtieri.

The shell size varies between 19 mm and 65 mm.

Tridentarius dentatus Linnaeus, 1758. Bouchet, P. (2010). Tridentarius dentatus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=531859 on 6 February 2011 .

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

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