Eudolium bairdii

Eudolium bairdii is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells.[1]

Eudolium bairdii
Specimen from the Beijing Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Tonnoidea
Family:	Tonnidae
Genus:	Eudolium
Species:	E. bairdii
Binomial name
Eudolium bairdii (Verrill & Smith in Verrill, 1881)[1]
Synonyms[1]
Dolium (Eudolium) bituminatum Martin, 1933 Dolium (Eudolium) crosseanum var. solidior Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906 Dolium bairdii Verrill & Smith in Verrill, 1881 Dolium bayrdi 'Verrill' Paetel, 1887 Dolium biornatum Tate, 1894 Eudolium inflatum Kuroda & Habe, 1952 Eudolium kuroharai Azuma, 1960 Eudolium lineatum Osima, 1943 Morio lineata Schepman, 1909

Distribution

This marine species has a circumtropical distribution in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.[1][2][3]

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 76 mm.[4]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 17 m and maximum recorded depth is 823 m.[4]

References

1. Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2021). "Eudolium bairdii (Verrill & S. Smith, 1881)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
2. "Eudolium bairdii (A.E.Verrill & S.Smith, 1881)". Species. GBIF.
3. Palomares, M. L. D. and Pauly, D., eds. (2019). "Eudolium bairdii" in SeaLifeBase. December 2019 version.
4. Welch, John J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and deep-sea gastropods: re-examining the evidence". PLoS ONE. 5 (1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776. PMID 20098740.