Ranella

Ranella
An apertural view of a shell of Ranella australasia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Tonnoidea
Family: Ranellidae
Genus: Ranella
Lamarck, 1816
Type species
Ranella gigantea Lamarck, 1816
Synonyms[1]
  • Argobuccinum (Ranella) Lamarck, 1816
  • Eugyrina Dall, 1904
  • Gyrina Schumacher, 1817
  • Gyrinopsis Dall, 1925
  • Mayena Iredale, 1917
  • Ranella (Apollon) Montfort, 1810

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

Shell description

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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

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Species within the genus Ranella include:

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

References

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  • 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.

Further reading

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