Aliger
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Aliger is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....

s, marine
Marine (ocean)
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 gastropod mollusks in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Strombidae
Strombidae
Strombidae, commonly known as the true conchs, is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to very large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Stromboidea....

, the true conchs.

Aliger has become a synonym of Lobatus Swainson, 1837.

Species

Species within the genus Aliger include:
  • Aliger costatus (Gmelin, 1791) : synonym of Lobatus costatus (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Aliger gallus (Linnaeus, 1758) : synonym of Lobatus gallus
    Lobatus gallus
    Lobatus gallus, previously known as Strombus gallus, common name the rooster conch or rooster-tail conch, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.-Distribution:...

    (Linnaeus, 1758)

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