Ranella

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Ranella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: Neogastropoda Family: Ranellidae Genus: Ranella Lamarck, 1816
Species
See text.

Ranella is a genus of very large warm-water and tropical sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ranellidae, the tritons.

[edit] Shell description

The shells of species within this genus are very large and solid, with a tall spire, a rounded aperture, a broadly flanged outer lip, and a moderately long siphonal canal, which is flexed and inclined to the left. The varices are prominent and rounded, but are hollowed out on the inside.

[edit] Species

• Ranella olearius Linnaeus, 1758
• Ranella parthenopaeum von Salis, 1793. NOTE: this may no longer be considered a Ranella, this may in fact be an out of date name for Cymatium parthenopeum (von Salis, 1793)
• Ranella australasia australasia (Perry, G, 1811)

[edit] References

• R.Tucker Abbott & S. Peter Dance, 1982, Compendium of Seashells, Duttin, New York
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