Ranularia pyrum explained

Ranularia pyrum, common name: the pear triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.

Description

The shell size varies between 50 mm and 130 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Chagos and the Mascarene Basin and in the Indo-West Pacific.

References

• 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

• 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.]