name: Conch

flavor_db_name_variants: conch

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food_db_id: Conch

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name_scientific: Strombidae

description: Conch is a common name that is applied to a number of different medium to large-sized sea snails or their shells. The term generally applies to large sea snails whose shell has a high spire and a noticeable siphonal canal (in other words, the shell comes to a point at both ends). True conches are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Strombidae, specifically in the genus Strombus and other closely related genera such as Eustrombus. Many species also are often called "conch", but are not in the family Strombidae, including Melongena species (family Melongenidae), and the horse conch Pleuroploca gigantea (family Fasciolariidae). They also include the sacred chank or more correctly shankha shell (Turbinella pyrum) and other Turbinella species in the family Turbinellidae.

itis_id: 72554

wikipedia_id: Conch

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picture_content_type: image/jpeg

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picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:43:52.000Z

legacy_id: 653

food_group: Aquatic foods

food_subgroup: Mollusks

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:52.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:28.000Z

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export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 69694

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