Ranella

Ranella
apertural view of the shell of Ranella australasia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Tonnoidea
Family:	Ranellidae
Genus:	Ranella Lamarck, 1816
Species
See text.
Synonyms[1]
Eugyrina Dall, 1904 Gyrina Schumacher, 1817 Gyrinopsis Dall, 1925 Mayena Iredale, 1917

Ranella is a genus of very large warm-water and tropical sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ranellidae, the tritons.

Shell description

The shells of species within this genus are very large and solid, with a tall spire, a rounded aperture, a broadly flanged outer lip, and a moderately long siphonal canal, which is flexed and inclined to the left. The varices are prominent and rounded, but are hollowed out on the inside.

Species

• Ranella olearium Linnaeus, 1758
• Ranella parthenopaeum Salis, 1793. NOTE: this may no longer be considered a Ranella, this may in fact be an out of date name for Cymatium parthenopeum (Salis, 1793)^{[citation needed]}
• Ranella australasia (Perry, 1811)

References

1. ^ WoRMS (2010). Ranella Lamarck, 1816. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138428 on 2010-09-16

Further reading

• R.Tucker Abbott & S. Peter Dance, 1982, Compendium of Seashells, Duttin, New York

External links

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