Spider Conch Snail – Lambis lambis – Small

The Spider Conch (Lambis lambis) has an odd and attractive shell with several claw-like digitations on the outer lip of the shell. Their soft body is brown with pale freckles and their long proboscis and stalked eyes peek out from below the shell. These snails often colonize on sandy bottoms in the South Pacific, often near red algae blooms where they feed. Young snails do not have the trademark digitation on the shell and can be mistaken for another species and the outer lip is rather smooth.

The True Conchs (Strombus, Lambis, Tibia, Terebellum, Varicospira, and Eustrombus) are algae eaters with some of the most iconic \