Giant spider conch
Lambis truncata
Category: Sea Snails & Nudibranchs
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Family
- Strombidae
- Genus
- Lambis
Where to Find
Found in 21 diving areas across 16 countries and 4 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 17 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 6 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 15 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 24 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 5 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 5 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 5 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 3 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 2 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 4 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 2 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 32 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 6 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records