Dolomena plicata

Dolomena plicata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Stromboidea
Family:	Strombidae
Genus:	Dolomena
Species:	D. plicata
Binomial name
	Dolomena plicata; (Röding, 1798)
Synonyms
	Lambis plicata Röding, 1798 (basionym); Strombus deformis Gray [in Griffith & Pidgeon], 1834; Strombus malekulensis Abrard, R., 1946; Strombus plicatus (Röding, 1798); Strombus plicatus plicatus (Röding, 1798); Strombus columba Lamarck, 1822;

Dolomena plicata, common name the pigeon conch, is a species of medium-sized to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 45 mm and 77 mm.

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along East Africa.

^ ^a ^b Dolomena plicata (Röding, 1798). WoRMS (2009). Dolomena plicata (Röding, 1798). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species on 28 March 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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