This family includes some of the largest living gastropods.
Tritons feed on other mollusks and starfish.
They secrete a paralyzing fluid that renders their prey helpless, then insert their mouthpart into the shell and eat the soft parts of the animal within. They dwell in tropical and warm waters and feature a thick and solid shell. Their egg capsules attach to rocks while their larvae may be free swimming for up to three months. This accounts for the wide distribution of the family. For thousands of years, statues and pictures have shown the mythological god Triton or Neptune blowing the Triton shell trumpets.