Doxander vittatus
Doxander vittatus, common name the vitate snail, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true snails. Subspecies. There are five subspecies : Distribution. This species occurs in the Indo-Pacific off Fiji and also in the South China Sea. Description. The adult shell size varies between 35 mm and 100 mm. Phylogeny. In 2006, Latiolais and colleagues proposed a cladogram (a tree of descent) that attempts to show the phylogenetic relationships of 34 species within the family Strombidae. The authors analysed 31 species in the genus "Strombus" including "Doxander  vittatus" (referred to as "Strombus vittatus" in their analysis), and three species in the allied genus "Lambis". The cladogram was based on DNA sequences of both nuclear histone H3 and mitochondrial cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) protein-coding gene regions. In this proposed phylogeny, "Strombus vittatus", "Strombus canarium" (= "Laevistrombus canarium") and "Strombus epidromis" (= "Labiostrombus epidromis") are closely related and appear to share a common ancestor.