Tonna allium

Tonna allium, common name the costate tun, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells.[2]

Costate tun
Two views of a shell of Tonna allium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Tonnoidea
Family:
Tonnidae
Genus:
Tonna
Species:
T. allium
Binomial name
Tonna allium
(Dillwyn, 1817)[1]
Synonyms[2]

Buccinum allium Dillwyn, 1817
Buccinum latescens Schröter in Martini, 1788
Cadus albus Röding, 1798
Dolium costatum Menke, 1828
Dolium fasciatum Bruguière, 1789
Dolium fasciatum var. Kiener, 1835 non Buccinum fasciatum Bruguière, 1789
Dolium latesulcatum Hanley, 1860
Dolium latesulcatum var. picta Hanley, 1860
Dolium natalensis Bartsch, 1915
Tonna costata
Tonna hardyi Bozzetti & Ferrario, 2005

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 50 mm and 131 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin and Mauritius.

References
  1. Dillwyn, 1817. Des. Cat. Rec. Shells, 2: 583.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 9 July 2010.
  2. Tonna allium (Dillwyn, 1817). Vos, C. (2009). Tonna allium (Dillwyn, 1817). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208010 on 9 July 2010 .
  • Dillwyn, 1817. Des. Cat. Rec. Shells, 2: 583
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
  • Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius
  • Bozzetti L. & Ferrario M. (2005) Three new species and a new subspecies from the South-Western Indian Ocean (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Turbinidae, Tonnidae, Buccinidae, Conidae). Visaya 1(4): 51-58. [April 2005]
  • Vos, C. (2007). A conchological Iconography (No. 13) - The family Tonnidae. 123 pp., 30 numb. plus 41 (1 col.) un-numb. text-figs, 33 maps., 63 col. pls, Conchbooks, Germany


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