Charonia
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyCharoniidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded8,809
Die Tritonshörner (Charonia) sind eine Schneckengattung aus der Familie der Tritonschnecken, die in allen tropischen Regionen der Weltmeere vertreten ist. Alle drei derzeit akzeptierten Arten sind sehr groß und leben von Stachelhäutern.
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 241
- With media
- 9
- Family
- Charoniidae
- Collections
- PRI, SDNHM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UCMP, UF
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, Spain, Madagascar, Japan, Morocco, Australia, French Polynesia
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Fossil records
- Description
- Distribution
- Life habits
- Feeding behavior
- Species and subspecies
- References
- External links
right|thumb|X-ray image of the shell of Charonia lampas
Charonia is a genus of very large sea snail, commonly known as '''Triton's trumpet or Triton snail. They are marine gastropod mollusks in the monotypic family Charoniidae'''. They are one of the few natural predators of the crown-of-thorns starfish.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Charonia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.