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Ranella

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Ranella is a genus of large warm-water and tropical sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ranellidae, the tritons. [1]

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

Species within the genus Ranella include:

Synonyms
  • Ranella reticularis (Linnaeus, 1758) sensu Deshayes, 1839: synonym of Ranella olearium (Linnaeus, 1758)

References

  • Lamarck J.B. (1816). Liste des objets représentés dans les planches de cette livraison. In: Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la Nature. Mollusques et Polypes divers. Agasse, Paris. 16 pp.
  • Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un Nouveau Systéme des Habitations des vers Testacés. Copenhagen : Schultz 287 pp., pls 1-22.
  • Dall, W.H. 1904. A historical and systematic review of the frog-shells and tritons. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 47: 114-144
  • Iredale, T. 1917. More molluscan name-changes, generic and specific. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 12(6): 322-330
  • Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
  • Vaught, K.C.; Tucker Abbott, R.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
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Ranella: Brief Summary

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

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