| Ranularia sarcostoma | |
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| Ranularia sarcostoma | |
| 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. sarcostoma |
| Binomial name | |
| Ranularia sarcostoma (Reeve, 1844) |
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Ranularia sarcostoma, common name : the flesh-coloured hairy triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells or tritons.[1]
This species was originally described by Reeve in 1844 as Cymatium (Ranularia) sarcostoma [2]
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The shell size varies between 50 mm and 103 mm
This species is found in the Indian Ocean in the Mascarene Basin and in the Indo-West Pacific.