Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Tonnoidea > Family Charoniidae > Genus Charonia

Charonia lampas (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Charonia*	Gistel, 1847	accepted genus name
*Triton*	Montfort, 1810	junior homonym
*Tritonium*	Röding, 1798	junior homonym
*Eutritonium*	Cossmann, 1904	synonym

Species group names

*Charonia lampas lampas*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym
*Charonia mirabilis*	Parenzan, 1970	synonym
*Charonia nodifera*	(Lamarck, 1822)	synonym
*Charonia rubicunda*	(G. Perry, 1811)	synonym
*Eutritonium nodiferum*	(Lamarck, 1822)	synonym
*Murex gyrinoides*	Brocchi, 1814	synonym
*Murex lampas*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym
*Septa rubicunda*	G. Perry, 1811	synonym
*Simpulum nodiferum*	(Lamarck, 1822)	synonym
*Simpulum nodiferum var. major*	Pallary, 1900	synonym
*Simpulum nodiferum var. minima*	Pallary, 1900	synonym
*Triton gyrinoides*	(Brocchi, 1814)	synonym
*Triton gyrinoides f. carinata*	De Gregorio, 1893	synonym
*Triton gyrinoides f. cochleosocia*	De Gregorio, 1893	synonym
*Triton gyrinoides var. ficarazzensis*	De Gregorio, 1884	synonym
*Triton gyrinoides var. imperans*	De Gregorio, 1884	synonym
*Triton gyrinoides var. inflectilabrum*	De Gregorio, 1884	synonym
*Triton gyrinoides var. labroplita*	De Gregorio, 1884	synonym
*Triton gyrinoides var. normalis*	De Gregorio, 1893	synonym
*Triton gyrinoides var. singilla*	De Gregorio, 1884	synonym
*Triton nodiferum*	Lamarck, 1822	synonym
*Triton nodiferum var. glabra*	Weinkauff, 1868	synonym
*Tritonium glabrum*	Locard, 1886	synonym
*Tritonium mediterraneum*	Risso, 1826	synonym
*Tritonium opis*	Röding, 1798	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: knobbed triton sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Kinkhorn; Knotiges Tritonshorn; Trompetenschnecke sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Greek: Τρίτωνας

Literature

additional source	Beu, A. G. (1976). New records of Cymatiidae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from Kapitean to Castlecliffian (Late Miocene to Early Pleistocene) rocks of East Cape District, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 19: 297-310.
additional source	Darragh, T. A. (2024). A checklist of Australian marine Cenozoic Mollusca. Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 83: 37-206.
additional source	Herbert, D.G., Jones, G.J. & Atkinson, L.J. (2018). Phylum Mollusca. In: Atkinson, L.J. and Sink, K.J. (eds) Field Guide to the Offshore Marine Invertebrates of South Africa. Malachite Marketing and Media: Pretoria. Pp. 249–320.
additional source	Beu, A. G. (2010). Neogene tonnoidean gastropods of tropical and South America: contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 377-378: 1-550.
additional source	Beu, A. G. (1976). Arrival of Semicassis pyrum (Lamarck) and other tonnacean gastropods in the Southern Ocean during Pleistocene time. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 6 (4): 413-432.
additional source	Landau, B.; Harzhauser, M.; Beu, A. G. (2009). A Revision of the Tonnoidea (Caenogastropoda, Gastropoda) from the Miocene Paratethys and their Palaeobiogeographic Implications. Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt. 149(1): 61-109.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Maxwell, P. A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D. P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
additional source	Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
additional source	Beu, A. G. (1998). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM: 19. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), a monograph of the New Caledonian fauna and revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 178: 1-255.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Charonia lampas (Linnaeus, 1758). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141101