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Cabestana spengleri

Cabestana spengleri
Cabestana spengleri.jpg
A live individual of Cabestana spengleri in situ
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Tonnoidea
Family: Ranellidae
Genus: Cabestana
Species: C. spengleri
Binomial name
Cabestana spengleri
(Perry, 1811)

Cabestana spengleri, or Spengler's trumpet, is a large predatory sea snail, sometimes called a predatory whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ranellidae, a family often known as the "tritons". This species is named after Lorenz Spengler.



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