Subfamily Cymatiinae Rank Species | Family Ranellidae Genus Ranularia | |
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Similar Ranularia, Ranularia testudinaria, Lotoria perryi, Ranularia sinensis, Monoplex mundus | ||
Ranularia sarcostoma, common name : the flesh-coloured hairy triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells or tritons.
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This species was originally described by Reeve in 1844 as Cymatium (Ranularia) sarcostoma
Description
The shell size varies between 50 mm and 103 mm
Distribution
This species is found in the Indian Ocean in the Mascarene Basin and in the Indo-West Pacific.
References
Ranularia sarcostoma Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA