Ranularia caudata
| Ranularia caudata | |
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| Apertural view of Ranularia caudatua (Gmelin, 1791) | |
| 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. caudata |
| Binomial name | |
| Ranularia caudata (Gmelin, 1791) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Ranularia caudata, common name the bent-neck triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells or tritons.[1]
Description
The size of a shell of an adult snail varies between 38 mm and 94 mm.
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Indo-West Pacific along Tanzania.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ranularia caudata (Gmelin, 1791) . WoRMS (2010). Ranularia caudata (Gmelin, 1791) . In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217019 on 12 May 2011.