Ranularia pyrum, common name: the pear triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.[1]
| Ranularia pyrum | |
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| Ranularia pyrum (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Cymatiidae |
| Genus: | Ranularia |
| Species: | R. pyrum
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| Ranularia pyrum (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Description
editThe shell size varies between 50 mm and 130 mm
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Chagos and the Mascarene Basin and in the Indo-West Pacific.
References
edit- ^ a b Ranularia pyrum (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 December 2018.
- ^ "Cymatium (Ranularia) pyrum". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
- 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
edit- 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.]
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