Giant Triton Snail

Charonia tritonis

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: Littorinimorpha Family: Charoniidae Genus: Charonia

About

Charonia tritonis, common name the Triton's trumpet or the giant triton, is a species of very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ranellidae, the tritons. Reaching up to two feet (or 60 cm) in shell length this is one of the biggest mollusks in the coral reef.