The Tonnidae are a family of medium-sized to very large sea snails, known as the tun shells. These are marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha...
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dictionary. TUN or tun may refer to: Tun shells, large sea snails of the family Tonnidae Tun, a tardigrade in its cryptobiotic state Tun or Toon, common name for...
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The marine molluscs of Sri Lanka are a part of the molluscan wildlife of Sri Lanka. Phylum: Mollusca According to 2006 survey by De Silva, there are 240...
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and Tonnidae rather than Cassoidea and Cassidae preferred by Riedel (1995). This is in agreement with the action of Thiele (1925) who placed Tonnidae and...
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Tonna galea (category Tonnidae)
the giant tun, is a species of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tonnidae (also known as the tun shells). This very large sea snail or tun snail...
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Tonna perdix (category Tonnidae)
species of very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells. The pattern and brownish colour of the shell is reminiscent...
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Tonna pennata (category Tonnidae)
a large species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells. Commonly known as the Atlantic partridge tun, the species...
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by MC Metals, Glasgow, October 1990 D1715 47125 47548 47666 Brush Tonnidae Cut by Harry Needle Railroad Company, Kingsbury, May 2002 D1716 47489 ...
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Tonna (gastropod) (category Tonnidae)
is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tonnidae, the tun or cask shells. The thin shell is ventricose, inflated, generally...
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Tonna canaliculata (category Tonnidae)
a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells. This type of sea snail is distinguished from many others...
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Pisanianuridae Warén & Bouchet, 1990 Ranellidae Gray, 1854, the tritons Tonnidae Suter, 1913 (1825), the tun shells Truncatelloidea Amnicolidae Tryon, 1863...
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related to such families as the tritons (Ranellidae) and the tun shells (Tonnidae). The maximum recorded body length is 260 mm. Minimum recorded depth is...
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Malea ringens (category Tonnidae)
a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells. This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Mexico to...
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Tonna oentoengi (category Tonnidae)
a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells. The length of the shell attains 110 mm. This marine species...
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Tonna tankervillii (category Tonnidae)
species of sea snail or tun snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells. This species is found in Australia, from Torres Strait...
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One simple varix (left) on the shell of Semicassis granulata in the Tonnidae...
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Tonna tessellata (category Tonnidae)
a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae. The shell of an adult Tonna tessellata can be as large as 45–150 millimetres...
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Tonna poppei (category Tonnidae)
a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells. Vos. 2005. Visaya 1(5) : 45-62. World Register of Marine...
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Eudolium crosseanum (category Tonnidae)
a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells. Barbados. The maximum recorded shell length is 81 mm....
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Tonna boucheti (category Tonnidae)
a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells. The size of an adult shell varies between 60 and 81 mm...
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List of marine molluscs of Venezuela (section Tonnidae)
The marine molluscs of Venezuela are a part of the molluscan fauna of Venezuela. The marine molluscs are the snails, clams and mussels, chitons, octopuses...
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Tonna cumingii (category Tonnidae)
large sea snail, a tun snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tonnidae, the tuns. The species currently referred to as Tonna cumingii (Hanley...
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Tonna lischkeana (category Tonnidae)
a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells. The length of the shell attains 165 mm. This marine species...
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related to such families as the tritons (Ranellidae) and the tun shells (Tonnidae). These pelagic slugs are not at all closely related to the pelagic opisthobranch...
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Tonna hawaiiensis (category Tonnidae)
gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells. Vos, C. (2007). A conchological Iconography (No. 13) - The family Tonnidae. 123 pp., 30 numb. plus 41...
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Eudolium (category Tonnidae)
is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells. Species within the genus Eudolium include: † Eudolium...
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Thira granifera (Lamarck, 1816) Melanoides tuberculata (Múller, 1774) Tonnidae – marine Tonna maculosa (Dillwyn, 1817) Tonna galea (Linneo, 1758) Trochidae...
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species and a new subspecies from the South-Western Indian Ocean (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Turbinidae, Tonnidae, Buccinidae, Conidae). Visaya. 1(4): 51-58...
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Tonna luteostoma (category Tonnidae)
a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tonnidae, the tun snails or tun shells. The species typically grows to a height...
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Tonna zonata (category Tonnidae)
a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells. The length of the shell varies between 100 mm and 280 mm...
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