Charonia lampas

Charonia lampas

Two views of a shell of Charonia lampas lampas form nodifera, with operculum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Tonnoidea
Family:	Ranellidae
Subfamily:	Cymatiinae
Genus:	Charonia
Species:	C. lampas
Binomial name
*Charonia lampas* (Linnaeus, 1758)^[1]
Synonyms^[2]
Charonia capax Finlay, 1926 Charonia capax euclioides Finlay, 1926 Charonia euclia instructa Iredale, 1929 Charonia mirabilis Parenzan, 1970 Charonia nodifera Linnaeus Charonia nodifera var. euclia Hedley, 1914 Charonia powelli Cotton, 1957 Charonia sauliae (Reeve, 1844) Charonia sauliae macilenta Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1961 Eutritonium lampas Linnaeus Murex lampas Linnaeus, 1758 Murex nerei Dillwyn, 1817 Nyctilochus alfredensis Bartsch, 1915 Septa rubicunda Perry, 1811 Triton australe Lamarck, 1822 Triton nodiferum Lamarck, 1822 Triton sauliae Reeve, 1844 Tritonium glabrum Locard, 1886 Tritonium mediterraneum Risso, 1826 Tritonium opis Röding, 1798 Tritonium pustulata Euthyme, 1889 Tritonium pustulata var. minor Euthyme, 1889 Tritonium pustulata var. varicosa Euthyme, 1889

Charonia lampas is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells or tritons.^[2]

Distribution

The maximum recorded shell length is 390 mm.^[3]

Minimum recorded depth is 8 m.^[3] Maximum recorded depth is 50 m.^[3]

^ Linnaeus C. (1758). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio Decima. Reformata. Holmiae, Impensis Direct. Stockholm: Laurentii Salvii. iv + 824 pp.
^ ^a ^b Charonia lampas (Linnaeus, 1758). Gofas, S. (2009). Charonia lampas (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141101 on 27 June 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.