The Tonnidae are a family of medium-sized to very large sea snails, known as the tun shells. These are marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha...
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The marine molluscs of Sri Lanka are a part of the molluscan wildlife of Sri Lanka. Phylum: Mollusca According to 2006 survey by De Silva, there are 240...
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dictionary. TUN or tun may refer to: Tun shells, large sea snails of the family Tonnidae Tun, a tardigrade in its cryptobiotic state Tun or Toon, common name for...
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related to such families as the tritons (Ranellidae) and the tun shells (Tonnidae). The maximum recorded body length is 260 mm. Minimum recorded depth is...
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Tonna sulcosa (category Tonnidae)
a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells. Shells of Tonna sulcosa usually can reach a length of...
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and Tonnidae rather than Cassoidea and Cassidae preferred by Riedel (1995). This is in agreement with the action of Thiele (1925) who placed Tonnidae and...
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Eudolium bairdii (category Tonnidae)
a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells. This marine species has a circumtropical distribution...
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Tonna canaliculata (category Tonnidae)
a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells. This type of sea snail is distinguished from many others...
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related to such families as the tritons (Ranellidae) and the tun shells (Tonnidae). These pelagic slugs are not at all closely related to the pelagic opisthobranch...
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Tonna perdix (category Tonnidae)
species of very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells. The pattern and brownish colour of the shell is reminiscent...
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