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Knobbed Triton
Species

Knobbed Triton

Charonia lampas, (Linnaeus, 1758)

marine

About Knobbed Triton

Charonia lampas, common name the pink lady, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Charoniidae.

Appearance

The maximum recorded shell length is 390 mm.

Habitat

This marine species has a wide distribution: the North Sea, the North Atlantic Ocean (Azores, Madeira, the Canaries, Cape Verdes), the Atlantic Ocean (off the African coasts), the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean (off Madagascar, the East coast of South Africa).

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