Strombus


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Noun1.Strombus - type genus of the family StrombidaeStrombus - type genus of the family Strombidae
genus Strombus
mollusk genus - a genus of mollusks
family Strombidae, Strombidae - the family of conchs
conch - any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip
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Recruitment of Strombus veligers to the Florida Keys reef tract: relation to hydrographic events.
Translocation as a strategy to rehabilitate the queen conch (Strombus gigas) population in the Florida Keys
[TABULAR DATA FOR TABLE 1 OMITTED] In a similar experiment, survival of juvenile gastropods (Strombus costatus) was reduced by 45-100% when fed on algal diets treated with various green algal terpenes at 1% of diet dry mass (Paul and Fenical 1986).
Can small rare prey be chemically defended? The case for marine larvae
Inducing relaxation in the queen conch Strombus gigas (L.) for cultured pearl production.
A nonlethal anesthesia protocol for accessing the mantle cavity of olympia oysters in the laboratory or field
Crecimiento y temporada reproductiva del caracol rosa Strombus gigas en el parque Xel-Ha, Mexico.
Variacion espacio-temporal de la ictiofauna del parque marino Xel-Ha, caribe mexicano y su relacion con parametros fisicoquimicos
- 95.5 19.8 -- 115.3 Strombus mutabulis 27.7 11.8 15.1 -- 54.6 Strombus spp.
Assessing the role of climate change and human predation on marine resources at the Fatu-ma-Futi site, Tutuila Island, American Samoa: an agent based model
The Taino Indians of the Bahamas were considered good harvesters because they had experience diving for queen conchs, Strombus gigas, one of their staple foods.
History of the Atlantic pearl-oyster, Pinctata imbricata, industry in Venezuela and Colombia, with biological and ecological observations
Several authors (Kitching and Lockwood 1974, Alcolado 1976, Hamilton 1980, Wellington and Kuris 1983, O'Loughlin and Aldrich 1987, Foin 1989) have suggested that local differences in shell morphology of Strombus gigas, Cypraea ssp., Melongena corona, Lepsiella spp., Calliostoma zizyphinum, and Purpura spp.
Developmental plasticity in the shell of the queen conch Strombus gigas
1993, Kenchington & Glass 1998), Strombus gigas (Avila-Poveda & Baqueiro-Cardenas 2006), and Busycon caricas (Power et al.
Population and reproductive biology of the channeled whelk, Busycotypus canaliculatus, in the us Mid-Atlantic
Shell shape variation of queen conch Strombus gigas (Mesograstropoda: Strombidae) from Southwest Caribbean
Variacion de la conformacion de la concha del caracol reina Strombus gigas (Caenogastropoda: Strombidae) del Caribe suroccidental
In this work, we present the bycatch mollusk species composition for the first time, which includes species listed in the Venezuelan Red Book (the gastropods Voluta musica, Phyllonotus margaritensis, Strombus pugilis, and the bivalve Pinctada imbricata) (Rodriguez & Rojas-Suarez, 2008).
Impact of the clam Arca zebra artisanal fishery upon the population of the neogastropod Voluta musica in eastern Venezuela

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