Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Strombidae Scientific name Canarium haemastoma | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Stromboidea Genus Canarium Rank Species | |
Similar Labiostrombus epidromis, Tridentarius dentatus, Canarium labiatum, Canarium erythrinum, Canarium | ||
Canarium haemastoma is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.
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Distribution
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin.
Phylogeny
In 2006, Latiolais and colleagues proposed a cladogram (a tree of descent) that attempts to show the phylogenetic relationships of 34 species within the family Strombidae. The authors analysed 31 species in the genus Strombus including Canarium haemastoma (referred to as Strombus haemastoma in their analysis), and three species in the allied genus Lambis. The cladogram was based on DNA sequences of both nuclear histone H3 and mitochondrial cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) protein-coding gene regions. In this proposed phylogeny, Strombus labiatus (= Canarium labiatum) and Strombus microurceus are closely related and appear to share a common ancestor.