Ranularia sinensis

Ranularia sinensis
	Apertural view of Ranularia sinensis (Reeve, 1844)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cymatiidae
Genus:	Ranularia
Species:	R. sinensis
Binomial name
	Ranularia sinensis; (Reeve, 1844)
Synonyms
	Cymatium (Ranularia) sinense (Reeve, 1844); Cymatium defrenata Iredale, T., 1936; Ranularia sinensis defranata Iredale, 1936; Cymatium (Ranularia) sinensis defrenata Iredale, T., 193; Triton sinensis Reeve, 1844;

Ranularia sinensis, common name: the Chinese triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.^[1]

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This species was originally described by Reeve in 1844 as Cymatium (Ranularia) sinense ^[2]

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