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
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Rapaninae
Genus: Rapana
H. C. F. Schumacher, 1817

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