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Taxonomy
Family:
TONNIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Tonnidae (Family)
> Tonna (Genus)
> perdix (Species)
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
Taxonomy
Family:
TONNIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Tonnoidea (Superfamily)
> Tonnidae (Family)
> Tonna (Genus)
> perdix (Species)
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-Western Pacific, Kermadec Islands and Northland
Geographical Range:
KA
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
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)

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Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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