Cabestana spengleri | |
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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.