Gutturnium muricinum

Gutturnium muricinum

Apertural view of Gutturnium muricinum (Röding, 1798)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Tonnoidea
Family:	Ranellidae
Subfamily:	Cymatiinae
Genus:	Gutturnium
Species:	G. muricinum
Binomial name
*Gutturnium muricinum* (Röding, 1798)
Synonyms^[1]
Afrocanidea gemma Connolly, 1929 Cymatium muricinum (Röding, 1798) Cymatium tuberosum (Lamarck, 1822) Distorsio muricinum Röding, 1798 Eutritonium tuberosum (Lamarck, 1822) Litiopa obesa C. B. Adams, 1850 Ranella gyrinata Risso, 1826 Ranularia muricina (Röding, 1798) Ranularia tuberosus (Lamarck, 1822) Triton albocingulatus Deshayes, 1863 Triton antillarum d’Orbigny, 1842 Triton crispus Reeve, 1844 Triton productum Gould, 1852 Triton pyriformis Conrad, 1849 Triton tuberosum Lamarck, 1822 Tritonium (Ranularia) nodulus Tapparone-Canefri, 1881 Tritonium nodulus Link, 1807

Gutturnium muricinum, common name the knobbly triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells or tritons.^[1]

Apertural view of Gutturnium muricinum, a subadult specimen

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 75 mm.^[2]

The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m; the maximum recorded depth is 27 m.^[2]

1 2 Gutturnium muricinum (Röding, 1798). WoRMS (2010). Gutturnium muricinum (Röding, 1798). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220950 on 27 June 2010.
1 2 Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.

Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp.

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