Tonna tankervillii
Tonna tankervillii | |
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A shell of Tonna tankervillii found on a northern New Zealand beach | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Tonnidae |
Genus: | Tonna |
Species: | T. tankervillii
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Binomial name | |
Tonna tankervillii (Hanley, 1860)
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Synonyms | |
Tonna cerevisina Hedley, 1919 |
Tonna tankervillii is a very large species of sea snail or tun snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells.
Distribution[]
This species is found in Australia, from Torres Strait in the north, down the east coast, and also on the northeast coast of New Zealand.[1]
Shell description[]
The shell height is up to 23 cm, and width 19 cm.
References[]
- ^ Powell A. W. B. (1979). William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
External links[]
Categories:
- Tonnidae
- Gastropods described in 1860
- Taxa named by Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley
- Tonnidae stubs