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Triton (Zo logy A genus of Salamandrin)

in zoölogy: (1) A genus of Salamandrinæ, with 16 species, widely distributed in temperate and sub-tropical regions. Body covered with warty tubercles, four toes on anterior, and five on posterior limbs, all without nails; no parotids; glandular pores above and behind the eyes, and a series of similar pores arranged longitudinally on each side of the body; male with well-marked discontinuous crest on back and tail; tongue globular, partially free at the sides, free behind where it is pointed.

In North America, Diemictylus viridescens is one of the most common species. (2) A genus of Muricidæ (Woodward), according to some other authorities, of Cassididæ, with 100 recent species, from the West Indies, Mediterranean, Africa, India, China, the Pacific, and western Australia, ranging from low water to 10 or 20 fathoms, and one minute species has been dredged at 50 fathoms. The Great Triton (T. tritonis) is the conch blown as a trumpet by the Australian and Polynesian natives. Fossil species 45, from the Eocene of Great Britain, France , and Chile.