Ranularia pyrum, common name: the pear triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.[1]

Ranularia pyrum
Ranularia pyrum (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cymatiidae
Genus: Ranularia
Species:
R. pyrum
Binomial name
Ranularia pyrum
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Murex pyrum Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym)
  • Cymatium pyrum (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cymatium (Ranularia) pyrum (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cymatium canaliculatum Röding, P.F., 1798
  • Cymatium clavatum Röding, P.F., 1798
  • Cymatium flexuosum Röding, P.F., 1798
  • Cymatium muricatum Röding, P.F., 1798

Description

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The shell size varies between 50 mm and 130 mm

Distribution

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

References

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  1. ^ a b Ranularia pyrum (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Cymatium (Ranularia) pyrum". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
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  • 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.
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