Red Triton Snail

Septa rubecula

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cymatiidae

Septa rubecula, the ruby triton or the red redbreast triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae. Subspecies Septa rubecula rebeculum Septa rubecula occidentale Distribution This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean off Chagos, the Mascarene basin and Tanzania and in the Indo-West Pacific. ; also off New Caledonia.

Distribution

Red Triton Snail — (c) H. Zell, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC-BY-SA

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

France · 2United States of America · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) H. Zell, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC-BY-SA DescriptionSepta rubecula, Wikipedia contributors

Red Triton Snail

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