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Family Strombidae

TROPICAL WESTERN ATLANTIC

Lobatus gigas

French Reef, Key Largo, 45 feet

QUEEN CONCH

Locally common on sand flats and seagrass beds where protected by law.  Commercially important and popular food in the Caribbean.  Attains 14 inches.  Bermuda, South Carolina to Brazil & the Gulf of Mexico.  Formerly known as Strombus gigas.

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