Biology:Ranularia pyrum
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Short description: Species of gastropod
Ranularia pyrum | |
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Ranularia pyrum (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Cymatiidae |
Genus: | Ranularia |
Species: | R. pyrum
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Binomial name | |
Ranularia pyrum (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Ranularia pyrum, common name: the pear triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.[1]
Description
The shell size varies between 50 mm and 130 mm
Distribution
This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Chagos and the Mascarene Basin and in the Indo-West Pacific.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ranularia pyrum (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 December 2018.
- ↑ "Cymatium (Ranularia) pyrum" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/5/Shell_435.shtml.
- Orr J. (1985). Hong Kong seashells. The Urban Council, Hong Kong
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
- Beu A.G. 2010 [August]. Neogene tonnoidean gastropods of tropical and South America: contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology 377-378: 550 pp, 79 pls.
External links
- Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition, vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.]
Wikidata ☰ Q3141371 entry
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