| Triton’s trumpet | |
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| A live Charonia tritonis | |
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| A shell of C. tritonis with its operculum in place in the aperture | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Charoniidae |
| Genus: | Charonia |
| Species: | C. tritonis
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| Binomial name | |
| Charonia tritonis | |
Charonia tritonis, common name the Triton's trumpet, the giant triton or pū[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]
- ^ Mary Kawena Pukui; Samuel Hoyt Elbert (2003). "lookup of pū". in Hawaiian Dictionary. Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library, University of Hawaii Press.
- ^ Charonia tritonis (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 December 2018.
- ^ "Descriptions and articles about the Triton's Trumpet (Charonia tritonis) - Encyclopedia of Life". Eol.org. 2011-02-16. Retrieved 2014-12-07.