| Ranella | |
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| apertural view of the shell of Ranella australasia | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
| Family: | Ranellidae |
| Genus: | Ranella Lamarck, 1816 |
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Ranella is a genus of very large warm-water and tropical sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ranellidae, the tritons.
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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.