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Taxonomy
Family: TONNIDAE Full Classification: Genus Synonyms: =Dolium Lamarck, 1801 =Perdix Montfort, 1810 Synonymised Names: =Dolium perdix (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Images: Tonna perdix (Linnaeus, 1758)
Found washed up on drift line, Whangaroa area, Northland, NZ. 37mm. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family: TONNIDAE Full Classification: Genus Synonyms: =Dolium Lamarck, 1801 =Perdix Montfort, 1810 Synonymised Names: =Dolium perdix (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Details: Tonna perdix (Linnaeus, 1758)
Size/Grows to:
Height 225mm
Distribution:
Indo-Pacific. Kermadec Islands and north-eastern North Island as far south as Bay of Islands, from 0-20m
Notes:
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References and Publications
- Spurgeon, A.M., Burch, K.W., Carson, K., Walton, K., Plaisted, J. Nov/2017 Notes on NZ Collected Species, Cookia, 29 (p.14)
- Vos, C. 2007 A Conchological Iconography 13, The family Tonnidae, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany (p.70)
- Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.221)
- Paul, W.J. Mar/1979 New Zealand Tonnidae, Cookia, 3(1) (p.21)
- Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.162)
- Powell, A.W.B. 1976 On the considerable influx of warm water molluscs that have invaded northern New Zealand waters within recent years, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 13 (p.150)
- Powell, A.W.B. 1974 New Zealand Molluscan Systematics with Descriptions of New Species: Part 8, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 11 (p.204)
- Gardner, N.W. Sep/1973 The Tun Shell (Tonnidae) which occur around northern New Zealand, Poirieria, 7(2) (p.42)
NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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