Ranularia exilis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
Family: | Ranellidae |
Subfamily: | Cymatiinae |
Genus: | Ranularia |
Species: | R. exilis |
Binomial name | |
Ranularia exilis (Reeve, 1844) |
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Ranularia exilis, common name: the slender triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells or tritons.[1]
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The shell size varies between 40 mm and 60 mm
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and the West Pacific Ocean.