Triton snails, triton shells, or tritons - Charonia variegata (Lamarck, 1816) - Τρίτωνας - Fossils from Cyprus

Family Ranellidae

Charonia variegata, the Atlantic triton or Atlantic triton's trumpet, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells, or tritons

This species has a wide distribution. It has been found in European waters, the Mediterranean Sea, in the Atlantic Ocean along Cape Verde, off the Canary Islands, North West Africa, and Tanzania, in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, and from North Carolina to eastern Brazil.

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by George Konstantinou

                                                                         Potamia

                                                              Agios Ioannis Malountas

                                                                              Geri