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''Laevistrombus'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. ==History== The taxon ''Laevistrombus'' was introduced in the literature as a subgenus of ''Strombus'' by Tetsuaki Kira (1955) in the third printing of the 1st edition of ''Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan''. It comprised two species, ''Strombus (Laevistrombus) canarium'' and ''Strombus (L.) isabella'' Lamarck, 1822. No type specimen was designated, and Kira gave no formal description or statement of differentiation, as required by the ICZN code to validate the name. In a later version of the book, ''Laevistrombus'' was elevated to genus level, but a description was still lacking. Rüdiger Bieler and Richard Petit (1996) considered it a ''nomen nudum'', and the authorship was transferred to Robert Tucker Abbott (1960), who had provided a proper description and illustrations of ''Laevistrombus'' and specified a type species, ''Strombus canarium'' L., in the first volume of his monograph ''Indo-Pacific Mollusca''. The currently accepted classification was proposed by Sepkoski (2002), who elevated ''Laevistrombus'' to genus level based on palaeontological data. ==Species== Living species within the genus ''Laevistrombus'' include: * ''Laevistrombus canarium'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * ''Laevistrombus turturella'' (Röding, 1798) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laevistrombus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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