Biology:Charonia lampas capax

Charonia lampas capax
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

Wikidata ☰ Q5086619 entry