Animalia > Mollusca > Gastropoda > Trochida > Turbinidae > Lithopoma > Lithopoma phoebium

Lithopoma phoebium (longspine starsnail)

Synonyms: Astraea longispina; Astraea phoebia; Astralium phoebium; Trochus armatus; Trochus spinulosus

Wikipedia Abstract

Lithopoma phoebium, common name the longspine star shell, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.
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Predators

Diodon hystrix (Ajargo)[1]
Trachinotus falcatus (Yellow-wax pompano)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Food Habits of Reef Fishes of the West Indies, John E. Randall, Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. 5, 665–847 (1967)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0