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Triplofusus giganteus, the Glossary

Triplofusus giganteus, commonly known as the Florida horse conch, or the giant horse conch, is a species of extremely large predatory subtropical and tropical sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, tulip snails and their allies.^[1]

35 relations: Aliger gigas, Atrina, Bivalvia, Calusa, Cannibalism, Common name, Conch, Dry Tortugas National Park, Family (biology), Fasciolaria, Fasciolaria tulipa, Fasciolariidae, Florida, Gastropoda, George Brettingham Sowerby I, Gulf of Mexico, List of U.S. state shells, Louis Charles Kiener, Maya civilization, Mollusca, Murex, North Carolina, Ocean, Operculum (gastropod), Predation, Sea snail, Sinistrofulgur perversum, Species, Strombidae, Tequesta, Thinstripe hermit crab, Tiger shark, Type (biology), Whorl (mollusc), Yucatán Peninsula.
Symbols of Florida
Taxa named by George Brettingham Sowerby I

Aliger gigas

Aliger gigas, originally known as Strombus gigas or more recently as Lobatus gigas, commonly known as the queen conch, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family of true conches, the Strombidae. Triplofusus giganteus and Aliger gigas are molluscs of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Atrina

Atrina is a cosmopolitan genus of bivalve molluscs belonging to the family Pinnidae.

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Bivalvia

Bivalvia, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts.

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Calusa

The Calusa (Calusa: *ka(ra)luš(i)) were a Native American people of Florida's southwest coast.

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Cannibalism

Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food.

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Common name

In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin.

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Conch

Conch is a common name of a number of different medium-to-large-sized sea snails.

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Dry Tortugas National Park

Dry Tortugas National Park is an American national park located about west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, in the United States.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Fasciolaria

Tulip snail or tulip shell is the common name for eight species of large, predatory, subtropical and tropical sea snails from the Western Atlantic. Triplofusus giganteus and Fasciolaria are Fasciolariidae.

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Fasciolaria tulipa

Fasciolaria tulipa, common name the true tulip, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fasciolariidae. Triplofusus giganteus and Fasciolaria tulipa are Fasciolariidae.

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Fasciolariidae

Fasciolariidae is a family of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Buccinoidea.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Gastropoda

Gastropods, commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda.

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George Brettingham Sowerby I

George Brettingham Sowerby I (12 August 1788 – 26 July 1854) was a British naturalist, illustrator and conchologist.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.

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List of U.S. state shells

This is a list of official state shells for those states of the United States that have chosen to select one as part of their state insignia.

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Louis Charles Kiener

Louis Charles Kiener (31 July 1799 – 24 July 1881) was a French malacologist born in Paris.

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Maya civilization

The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period.

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Mollusca

Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.

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Murex

Murex is a genus of medium to large sized predatory tropical sea snails.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Ocean

The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx.

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Operculum (gastropod)

The operculum is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure like a trapdoor that exists in many (but not all) groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails; the structure is found in some marine and freshwater gastropods, and in a minority of terrestrial gastropods, including the families Helicinidae, Cyclophoridae, Aciculidae, Maizaniidae, Pomatiidae, etc.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplofusus_giganteus

Also known as Florida horse conch, Horse conch, Pleuroploca gigantea, Triplofusus papillosa, Triplofusus papillosus.

Triplofusus giganteus, the Glossary

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Symbols of Florida

Taxa named by George Brettingham Sowerby I

References