Charonia lampas capax | |
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From 90 feet off Kapiti Island, New Zealand. |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
Family: | Ranellidae |
Genus: | Charonia |
Species: | C. lampas |
Subspecies: | C. lampas capax |
Trinomial name | |
Charonia lampas capax Finlay, 1927 |
Charonia lampas capax the knobbed triton, is a subspecies of very large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ranellidae, the tritons.
Also see Charonia or Triton (mollusc).