Rapana

Rapana
A live but retracted individual of Rapana venosa showing the operculum, anterior end of the shell towards the upper left in this image. From the Black Sea, 2008
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Rapaninae
Genus:	Rapana H. C. F. Schumacher, 1817[1]

Rapana is a genus of large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock snails.

Species[]

Species within the genus Rapana include:

• Rapana bezoar (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Rapana pellucida Bozzetti, 2008
• Rapana rapiformis (Born, 1778)
• Rapana venosa (Valenciennes, 1846)^[2]

References[]

External links[]

• Data related to Rapana at Wikispecies
• Media related to Rapana at Wikimedia Commons
• www.gastropods.com