Charonia tritonis
| Triton’s trumpet | |
|---|---|
| A live Charonia tritonis | |
| A shell of C. tritonis with its operculum in place in the aperture | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Charoniidae |
| Genus: | Charonia |
| Species: | C. tritonis |
| Binomial name | |
| Charonia tritonis | |
Charonia tritonis, common name the Triton's trumpet, the giant triton or pū is a species of very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Charoniidae, the tritons. Reaching up to two feet (or 60 cm) in shell length this is one of the biggest mollusks in the coral reef.