Cacique Magazine

MONARCH OF THE MOLLUSCS

First, you need to pronounce it correctly: it's conch with a hard ‘k’ at the beginning and a silent ‘h’ at the end. You might also want to gen up on this giant gastropod's scientific nomenclature. Since 2008, it's changed from Strombus gigas to Lobatus gigas and, most recently, to Aliger gigas.

But it's not just taxonomic scientists that have an intense interest in the queen conch. You only have to glance at the flag of the Turks & Caicos islands to find an image of its elaborate shell, with the conspicuously spiny whorl and smooth, pink

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