Dog conch
Laevistrombus canarium
Category: Sea Snails & Nudibranchs
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Family
- Strombidae
- Genus
- Laevistrombus
Where to Find
Found in 20 diving areas across 13 countries and 6 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 7 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 10 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 3 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 5 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 3 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 9 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 3 records
- Lima & Palomino Islands, Peru - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 5 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 2 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 2 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 11 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 11 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 1 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 1 records
- Hoi An & Cu Lao Cham, Vietnam - 1 records