Stromboid notch

 ( Gastropod Anatomy ) 

The stromboid notch is an anatomical feature which is found in the gastropod shell of one taxonomic family of medium-sized to large sea snails, the .

Marine in the family Strombidae have a notch in the edge of the shell aperture not far from the siphonal canal. This indentation is called the stromboid notch. Its function is to enable the animal to extend one of its two stalked eyes out through the notch when the animal is active.Kenneth R. Wye, The Encyclopedia of Shells, London, 2004, p. 70.

'' shows its siphon in front and stalked eyes behind. The eye stalk on the left in the image is protruding through the stromboid notch.]]

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See also

• Strombus
• siphonal notch
• siphonal canal

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