Tricornis tricornis

Tricornis tricornis
	Two shells of Tricornis tricornis.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Stromboidea
Family:	Strombidae
Genus:	Tricornis
Species:	T. tricornis
Binomial name
	Tricornis tricornis; (Lightfoot, 1786)
Synonyms
	Lambis curruca Röding, 1798; Strombus (Tricornis) indecoratus Lorenz & Wiese, 1990; Strombus orientalis Duclos in Chenu, 1844; Strombus pertinax Duclos in Chenu, 1844; Strombus tricornis Lightfoot, 1786 (basionym);

Tricornis tricornis, common name the three-cornered conch, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 65 mm and 170 mm.

This species occurs in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Indian Ocean off Djibouti, Eritrea and Somalia.

^ ^a ^b Tricornis tricornis (Humphrey, 1786). Bouchet, P. (2010). Tricornis tricornis (Lightfoot, 1786). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=531848 on 25 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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