| Tonna tankervillii | |
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| Tonna tankervillii found on northern New Zealand beach. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
| Family: | Tonnidae |
| Genus: | Tonna |
| Species: | T. tankervillii |
| Binomial name | |
| Tonna tankervillii (Hanley, 1860) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Tonna cerevisina Hedley, 1919 |
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Tonna tankervillii is a very large species of sea snail or tun snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells.
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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]
The shell height is up to 23 cm, and width 19 cm.