Tonna allium

Tonna allium
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

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]

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

• 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

External links

• gastropods.com : Tonna (Dolium complex) allium; accessed : 26 April 2011