Charonia variegata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tonnoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Gastropoda Subclassis: Caenogastropoda Ordo: Littorinimorpha Superfamilia: Tonnoidea

Familia: Charoniidae
Genus: Charonia
Species: Charonia variegata

Name

Charonia variegata (Lamarck, 1816)

Synonyms

Charonia atlantica E. Bowdich, 1822
Charonia tritonis variegata Lamarck, 1816
Triton atlantica Bowdich, 1822
Tritonium sulcatum A. Risso, 1826
Triton nobilis Conrad, 1848
Triton variegata Lamarck, 1816
Charonia nobilis T. A. Conrad, 1849
Charonia seguenziae (Aradas & Benoit, 1872)
Charonia variegatus Reeve
Triton seguenziae Aradas & Benoit, 1872

References

Abbott, R.T. 1954: American Seashells. D. Van Nostrand Company Inc. New York. xiv + 541 p.
Altena, C.O. 1975: The marine mollusca of Suriname (Dutch Guiana) Holocene and recent. III Gastropoda and Cephalopoda. Zool. Verh. 139: 1–104.
Clench & Turner: The family Cymatiidae in the Western Atlantic, Johnsonia 3, pp. 189-244, 1957
Gibson Smith, J. 1976: A new taxon of the genus Charonia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Pliocene of Venezuela. Asoc. Venez. Geol. Min. Petrol., Bol. Inf. 19(1):1-17.
de Jong, K.M. & Coomans, H.E. 1988: Marine gastropods fron Curacao, Aruba and Bonaire. Studies of the Fauna of Curacao and other Caribbean Islands 47: 1–261.
Lamarck, J.B. de 1816: Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la Nature. Paris. page(s): pl. 421, Liste, p. 5.
Macsotay, O. & Campos, R. 2001: Moluscos representativos de la plataforma de Margarita. Editora Rivolta. Valencia. 280p. ISBN 980-328-808-3
Rios, E.C. 1970: Coastal brazilian seashells. Museu Oceanografico de Rio Grande. Rio Grande. 255p.
Rolán, E. 2005: Malacological fauna from the Cape Verde Archipelago: 1. Polyplacophora and Gastropoda. ConchBooks: Hackenheim. ISBN 9783325319736. 455 pp.
Rosenberg, G., Moretzsohn & García, E.F. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico. pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. & Camp, D.K. (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. Reference page.
Warmke, G.L. & Abbott, R.T. 1961: Caribbean Seashells. Livingston Publishing Company. Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

External links

Charonia variegata in the World Register of Marine Species
Charonia variegata – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
SysTax: Charonia variegata (Lamarck, 1816)

Vernacular names

English: Trumpet Triton
español: Tritón del Atlántico
עברית: חצוצרה אצילה

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