Charonia lampas capax
| Charonia lampas capax | |
|---|---|
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| From 90 feet off Kapiti Island, New Zealand. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
| Family: | Ranellidae |
| Genus: | Charonia |
| Species: | C. lampas |
| Subspecies: | C. lampas capax |
| Trinomial name | |
| Charonia lampas capax Finlay, 1927 | |
Charonia lampas capax the knobbed triton, is a subspecies of very large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ranellidae, the tritons.
It is considered a synonym of synonym of Charonia capax Finlay, 1926
Ventral view of the shell of Charonia lampas capax
References
- Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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