Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Stromboidea

Strombidae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Canarium Schumacher, 1817
Conomurex P. Fischer, 1884
Fusistrombus Bandel, 2007
Lambis Röding, 1798
Strombus Linnaeus, 1758

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: conch shells; conchs; true conchs sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Fechterschnecken; Flügelschnecken sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: ソデボラ／スイショウガイ科

Literature

original description	Rafinesque, C.S. (1815). Analyse de la nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Published by the author, Palermo. 224 pp.
additional source	Kronenberg G.C. & Lee H.G. (2007). Genera of American strombid gastropods (Gastropoda: Strombidae) and remarks on their phylogeny. The Veliger. 49(4): 256-264.
additional source	Bandel, K. (2007). About the larval shell of some Stromboidea, connected to a review of the classification and phylogeny of the Strombimorpha (Caenogastropoda). Freiberger Forschungshefte, Ser. C. 524: 97-206.
additional source	Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July].
taxonomy source	Liverani V. (2014) The superfamily Stromboidea. Addenda and corrigenda. In: G.T. Poppe, K. Groh & C. Renker (eds), A conchological iconography. pp. 1-54, pls 131-164. Harxheim: Conchbooks.
ecology source	Robertson, R.:. (1961). The feeding of Strombus and related herbivorous marine gastropods: with a review and field observations. Notulae Naturae. 343: 1-9.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Strombidae Rafinesque, 1815. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:23123