original description
(of Strombus vanikorensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1832-1835). <i>Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe: exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie.</i> 1: i-l, 1-264; 2(1): 1-321 [1832]; 2(2): 321-686 [1833]; 3(1): 1-366 [1834]; 3(2): 367-954 [1835]; 4 [1833]; Atlas (Mollusques): pls 1-93 [1833] ...etc. In: Dumont d'Urville, J.; 1834, Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Paris, J. Tastu, Éditeur-Imprimeur., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.2132
page(s): 73, pl. 51 figs 7-9 [details]
basis of record
Maxwell S.J., Dekkers A.M., Rymer T.L. & Congdon B.C. (2019). <i>Laevistrombus</i> Abbott 1960 (Gastropoda: Strombidae): Indian and southwest Pacific species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4555(4): 491-506., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4555.4.2
page(s): 501, fig. 8 [details]
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Distribution Queensland from the Cape York Peninsula south to Dingo Beach; to the east, from Rabaul, Papua New Guinea along the island chains to the Wallis and Futuna Islands. In the northwest, it may range from Myanmar (Burma) to south Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia. [details]
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