Gastropoda - Caenogastropoda - Hypsogastropoda - Family: Tonnidae
Tonnidae | |
Genus: Eudolium | |
Eudolium bairdii (Verrill & Smith, 1881) Height 50mm, Width 25mm Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indo-West Pacific, 17-823 metres (deepest alive 560 metres). Bay of Plenty, 380-420 metres [A] | ![]() |
Eudolium crosseanum (Monerosato, 1869) (=pyriforme G.B.Sowerby III) Length 60mm, Width 45mm Indo-West Pacific, from South Africa to Japan, Hawaii and northern New Zealand. Off Northland, Bay of Plenty, 137-580m (deepest alive 390m) [A] | ![]() |
Genus: Malea | |
Malea pomum (Linnaeus, 1758) Height 70mm Kermadec Islands, and occasionally washed up in the Far North [K.A] | ![]() |
Genus: Tonna | |
Tonna cumingii (Reeve, 1849) Height 90mm, Width 65mm East Coast Northland [A] | ![]() |
Tonna dolium (Lamarck, 1822) (=maculata Powell not Lamarck) Height 110mm, Width 95mm Indo-Pacific, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Japa, Philippines, Fiji and northern part of North Island [A] | ![]() |
Tonna lischkeana (Küster, 1857) Height 215mm E Africa to Hawaii. Northern New Zealand [A] | |
Tonna luteostoma (Küster, 1857) Height 100mm, Width 85mm N.Z. Far North. Common in Japan [A] | ![]() |
Tonna melanostoma (Jay, 1839) Height 180mm, Width 145mm, Distinguished by dark-brown spreading parietal callus Hawaiian Islands to Tonga, Society Islands, Melanesia and Northland east coast [K.A] | |
Tonna perdix (Linnaeus, 1758) Length 225mm Indo-Western Pacific, Kermadec Islands and Northland [K.A] | ![]() |
Tonna tankervillii (Hanley, 1860) (=cerevisina Hedley) Height 250mm, Width 210mm, Common Cask or Tun Shell. Characterised by a deep canaliculate suture Northland to Hawkes Bay and Mahia Peninsula. Washups on sandy beaches and alive below low tide [AC] | ![]() |
Tonna tetracotula Hedley, 1919 Height 200mm, Width 150mm Outer Hauraki Gulf to Bay of Plenty. Also Australia, Queensland to Victoria [A] | ![]() |
Tonna zonata (Green, 1830) (=olearium Powell) Height 200mm, Width 155mm Nortern part of North Island, to western Bay of Plenty. Also Indian Ocean, Japan [A] | ![]() |