Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Strombidae Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Stromboidea Genus Canarium | |
Similar Canarium mutabile, Canarium labiatum, Canarium, Labiostrombus epidromis, Tridentarius dentatus | ||
Canarium microurceus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.
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 microurceus (referred to as Strombus microurceus 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.