Big shell but no name !

[underwaterdream]

Hi all,
I am quite new in the site and in the shell world.
I have trouble identifying few shells I have collected, strangely the biggest one  :-[
Is someone could help me with this one ?
To help, it was found in Mauritius in shallow waters.

Thanks to all

[Emma]

Hi!

To the best of my knowledge, it's a Strombus gigas 

I hope someone can confirm my identification!

Best wishes,

Emma.

[Emma]

P.s. A juvenile Strombus gigas.

[Orepaul87]

I had to look up a map of Mauritius!    Strombus gigas is to the best of my knowledge a Carribean species.  I agree that this is a juvenile Strombidae, but I'm inclined to think it's one  of the Lambis species. Sorry I don't knom which ones will be found in the western Indian Ocean!

[underwaterdream]

That is the anomaly. What I could search myself let me think that looks like a strombus gigas, but not found in the right ocean, so I was getting lost on what this could be.
The specimen is a bit over 260 mm. Is this could really be a gigas?

[underwaterdream]

I although found similarities with Lobatus galeatus, which is also a species not from the Indian Ocean.  Ideas ?

[dave r]

Sorry but I can't see any photo. It would not be gigas from there, no. The only species I know from the Indian Ocean that gets that big would be Lambis truncata.

[underwaterdream]

Dear Dave,
I also posted the picture in the following link for you to see :

<http://imageshack.us/a/img197/1246/strombidae3.jpg>
<http://imageshack.us/a/img716/958/strombidae2.jpg>
<http://imageshack.us/a/img16/1264/strombidae1.jpg>

If it is a lambis truncata, it seems to me as a very weird specimen. Do still think it can be that ?

Thanks

[dave r]

Thanks, I can see the photos now. Definitely Lambis truncata but a sub-adult specimen. You can just make out on the lip where the spines have started to grow.

[underwaterdream]

Thanks a lot Dave !