Charonia lampas capax

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.

Also see Charonia or Triton (mollusc).

Ventral view of the shell of Charonia lampas capax

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