26 cm GIANT Charonia lampas Knobbed triton Seashell with operculum. Morocco

Amazing 26 cm Giant Triton Seashell
Charonia lampas (Linnaeus, 1758)

NW Atlantic African Coast, Morocco

 

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2020 - Morocco

Dimensions: Specimen - ca. 26 cm (maximum length)

 

Locality: Moroccan NW Atlantic Coast.

 

Taxonomy:

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Mollusca

Class: Gastropoda

Subclass: Caenogastropoda

Order: Littorinimorpha

Family: Charoniidae

Species: Charonia lampas

 

 

Description:

GIANT Charonia Lampas "or" Trumpet Triton Ammonite 26 cm Sea Shell.

Condition is "New". Amazing colour pattern.

 

This specimen, with 26 cm, is remarkably old (30 - 40+ years old) and big - 67 % (!) of the maximum length ever recorded for the species. Very few of this size are found nowadays.

 

Minor damages and a few eroded parts at the shell, as is typical of this old-living species. Also, during manipulation, fishermen sometimes broke small parts.

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Information about the species:

 

Charonia lampas is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc from the Charoniidae Family.

 

This marine species has a wide distribution: North Sea, North Atlantic Ocean (Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, Cape Verde), Atlantic Ocean (off the African coast), Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean (off Madagascar, the east coast of South Africa).

 

The maximum recorded shell length is 390 mm. The proto-shell is multispiral, normally eroded except in very juvenile specimens. The teleoconch consists of 8-9 whorls with a moderately tall conical spire and convex whorls, the last broad and making up a little over two-thirds of the total height.

 

The whorls of the needle are vaguely shouldered, with very flat spiral cords separated by rather narrow and indistinct interspaces, the shoulder covered by a much broader, flatter cord and commonly, but not always, have a series of spiral bumps, parallel to abapical side by flat lesser cords with or without spiral rows of knobs. The large opening is oval in shape, with an elaborate peristome. The outer lip is flared, thickened a short distance from the edge and with internal denticles. The inner part of the peristome shows an appressed parietal callus, which continues into a foliate columellar callus with a raised rim protruding above the siphonal canal in large specimens and bears indistinct ridges towards the rim.

 

The colour pattern is highly characteristic, with articulated spiral bands of light patches on the knobs and dark brown in between, alternating with uniform bands of medium brown. The peristome is white with dark brown denticles on the outer lip and a brown to reddish hue on the edge of the columellar callus.

 

 

Lot details

Specimen 26 cm GIANT Knobbed triton Seashell

Scientific Name Charonia lampas (Linnaeus, 1758)

Origin Morocco

CITES relevancy Non-CITES species

Condition Good condition

Year 2020

Dimensions ca. 26 cm

Weight 405 g

 
 

 

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