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Triton

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ105245 ↗
Source-derived summary

Triton commonly refers to:

Triton (mythology), a Greek god

Triton (moon), a satellite of Neptune

Triton may also refer to:

Biology

Triton cockatoo, a parrot

Triton (gastropod), a group of sea snails

Triton, a synonym of Triturus, a genus of newts

Companies

Triton, a bass boat manufacturer

Triton (fashion), a Brazilian fashion brand owned by Colcci

Triton Airlines, a Canadian airline operating from 1993 to 1994

Triton Digital

Triton Energy Limited, an American oil and natural gas exploration and production company

Triton Media Group, owner of radio stations

Triton Showers, the UK's largest manufacturer of electric showers

Triton Submarines, an American manufacturer of private submarines

Triton Systems, a manufacturer of automated teller machines

Film and television

Triton (1961 TV series), a BBC television adventure series

Triton (1968 TV series), a BBC television adventure series, remake of the earlier show

Fountains

Fontana del Tritone, Rome

Fountain of the Tritons, Rome, completed in 1715

Triton Fountain (Malta), Valletta, Malta, created in 1959

Literature

Triton (collection), a 1949 collection of fantasy short stories by L. Ron Hubbard

Triton (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character

Triton of the Sea, a 1969 Japanese manga by Osamu Tezuka

Triton (novel), a 1976 novel by Samuel R. Delany

Tritón (magazine), a Mexican magazine dedicated to swimming, diving and water polo

Military and government

HMS Triton, various Royal Navy vessels

Triton-class submarine or T-class, a class of British vessels

USS Triton, various US Navy vessels

HDMS Triton, various Danish Navy vessels

HDMS Triton (F358), a Danish Navy frigate

HDMS Triton (1790), an earlier Danish frigate

RV Triton, a trimaran vessel used by the Australian Custom Service, and formerly by the Royal Navy for research

USCGC Triton, a list of US Coast Guard vessels

USCGC Triton (WPC-116), a US Coast Guard patrol boat commissioned in 1934

Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton, a United States Navy unmanned aerial vehicle

Triton, a World War II encryption network using the Enigma machine

Triton, a Type 209 submarine of the Hellenic Navy

Triton-class diving support vessel, a class of Dutch diving support vessels

People

Tritón (wrestler) (born 1987), Mexican luchador enmascarado

Characters

King Triton, a character in The Little Mermaid

Luke Triton, a character in Professor Layton

Thomas Triton, a character in The Deptford Mice

Mascots

Triton, mascot of Eckerd College

Triton, mascot of Edmonds College

Triton, mascot of Pacifica High School (Oxnard, California)

Triton, mascot of Mariner High School (Cape Coral, Florida)

Triton, mascot of San Clemente High School (San Clemente, California)

Triton, mascot of the University of California, San Diego

Triton, mascot of the University of Guam

Triton, mascot of the University of Missouri–St. Louis

Places

Triton Point, a point on the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica

Triton, Newfoundland and Labrador, a village in Canada

Triton Bay, an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada

Triton River, a river flowing into Lake Copais, Greece

Triton Bay, Kaimana, West Papua, Indonesia

Triton Island, a Paracel Island in the South China Sea

Schools

Triton High School (disambiguation)

Triton Regional High School (New Jersey), a high school in Runnemede, New Jersey

Triton College, Illinois, United States

Triton Regional School District, a school district in Massachusetts, United States

Sport

UC San Diego Tritons, an athletic sports team for the University of California, San Diego

Tampa Bay Tritons, a defunct professional roller hockey team

Triton Financial Classic, a golf tournament on the Champions Tour from 2003 to 2009

UMSL Tritons, University of Missouri–St.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Triton” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Triton, Wikimedia and disambiguation, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 1994, 1961, 1968—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Triton, Wikimedia and disambiguation is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “wikimedia disambiguation page” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q105245. The first chronological checks are 1993, 1994, 1961 and 1968.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Triton” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.