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Ranellidae
Sign in to saveThe Ranellidae, common name the triton shells or tritons, are a taxonomic family of small to very large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the order Littorinimorpha.
Species
rock whelks
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyRanellidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 837
- With media
- 39
- Family
- Ranellidae
- Collections
- LACM, UCMP, UWBM, NHMUK, PRI, USNM
- Recorded in
- United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Italy, Philippines, Argentina, Dominica, Portugal
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Ranellidae, common name the triton shells or tritons, are a taxonomic family of small to very large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the order Littorinimorpha.
==Distribution== The Tritons are principally equatorial in their geographical distribution, and belong more especially to the Asiatic fauna. Those with the siphonal canal very much produced are obtained from deep water. The cancellated forms are from sand, in deep water; and those covered with an epidermis are chiefly from sandy mud, in from six to thirty fathoms.
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