Charonia tritonis

Triton’s trumpet
A live Charonia tritonis
A shell of C. tritonis with its operculum in place in the aperture
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Charoniidae
Genus: Charonia
Species:
C. tritonis
Binomial name
Charonia tritonis

Charonia tritonis, common name the Triton's trumpet, the giant triton or [1] is a species of very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Charoniidae, the tritons.[2] Reaching up to two feet (or 60 cm) in shell length this is one of the biggest mollusks in the coral reef.[3]

  1. ^ Mary Kawena Pukui; Samuel Hoyt Elbert (2003). "lookup of ". in Hawaiian Dictionary. Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library, University of Hawaii Press.
  2. ^ Charonia tritonis (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Descriptions and articles about the Triton's Trumpet (Charonia tritonis) - Encyclopedia of Life". Eol.org. 2011-02-16. Retrieved 2014-12-07.