Charonia tritonis, common name the Triton's trumpet or the Giant Triton, is a species of very large sea scnail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Charoniidae ...
While snorkeling along a stretch of coral reef on Redang Island in Malaysia we found this Adanson's slit shell in a few meters of seabed. The encounter, quite unusual given that the mollusc lives at great depths, is due to the fact that it was probably brought there by some deep-sea fisherman while cleaning the fishing nets...