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Species List for Family: Tonnidae
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Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Tonnoidea (Superfamily) > Tonnidae (Family)
  • Family: Tonnidae

  • Eudolium bairdii (A.E. Verrill & S. Smith, 1881)
    Height 50mm, Width 25mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific. North-eastern North Island, from 380-424m
  • Eudolium crosseanum (Monerosato, 1869)
    Height 60mm, Width 45mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Western Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indo-West Pacific. North-eastern North Island, from 400-407m
  • Malea pomum (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Height 70mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indo-West Pacific and western Atlantic. Kermadec Islands, with occasional occurrence in Far North, NZ, from 0-23m
  • Tonna cumingii (Reeve, 1849)
    Height 90mm, Width 65mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic, The species currently classified as Tonna cumingii in New Zealand could possibly be a new/different species or even more than one species. Until further research has been published, the current name of Tonna cumingii is used here
    Indo-West Pacific. North-eastern North Island, from 0m
  • Tonna dolium (Lamarck, 1822)
    Height 110mm, Width 95mm
    Marine
    Indo-Pacific, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Japa, Philippines, Fiji and northern part of North Island
  • Tonna lischkeana (Küster, 1857)
    Height 215mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indo-West Pacific. Kermadec Islands and north-eastern North Island as far south as Motuhora Island, from 0-27m
  • Tonna luteostoma (Küster, 1857)
    Height 100mm, Width 85mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indo-West Pacific. North-eastern North Island, from 0m
  • Tonna melanostoma (Jay, 1839)
    Height 180mm, Width 145mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    West Pacific. Kermadec Islands, and north-eastern North Island as far south as Bream Bay, from 10-20m
  • Tonna perdix (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Height 225mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indo-Pacific. Kermadec Islands and north-eastern North Island as far south as Bay of Islands, from 0-20m
  • Tonna tankervillii (Hanley, 1860)
    Height 250mm, Width 210mm
    Common Cask or Tun Shell, Marine, Native - Non-endemic, Washups on sandy beaches and alive below low tide
    Eastern Australia and northern New Zealand. North Island as far south as Whanganui, from 0-366m
  • Tonna tetracotula Hedley, 1919
    Height 200mm, Width 150mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Eastern Australia and northern New Zealand. North-eastern North Island as far south as Motuhora Island, from 55-73m
  • Tonna zonata (Green, 1830)
    Height 200mm, Width 155mm
    Marine, Native - Non-endemic
    Indo-West Pacific. North-eastern North Island as far south as Motuhora Island, from 37-91m
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