Biology:Tonna chinensis

Short description: Species of gastropod

China tun
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Tonnidae
Genus:	Tonna
Species:	T. chinensis
Binomial name
Tonna chinensis (Dillwyn, 1817)
Synonyms
Buccinum chinense Dillwyn, 1817 (basionym) Dolium (Dolium) chinense (Dillwyn, 1817)(Recombination) Dolium (Dolium) chinense var. magnifica (G. B. Sowerby III, 1904) (Recombination of synonym) Dolium australe Mörch, 1853 Dolium chinense (Dillwyn, 1817)(Recombination) Dolium magnificum G.B. Sowerby III, 1904 Dolium pictum Schepman, 1893 Dolium schepmani Bayer, 1937 Dolium variegatum Philippi, 1847 Dolium variegatum var. chinense Tryon, 1885 Tonna (Tonna) chinensis (Dillwyn, 1817) (Recombination) Tonna (Tonna) schepmani (Bayer, 1937) (Recombination of synonym) Tonna chinensis magnifica Kira, 1959

Tonna chinensis, common name : the China tun, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells.

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 40 mm and 140 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific.

References

• Beu, A. G. (2005) Neogene fossil tonnoidean gastropods of Indonesia. Scripta Geologica 130, p. 1-186, pp. 166, figs. 327
• Vos C. (2005) Notes on Tonnidae of the T. variegata complex and T. chinensis complex, with descriptions of four new species (Gastropoda: Tonnidae). Visaya 1(5): 45–62. [November 2005]
• Vos, C. (2007). A conchological Iconography (No. 13) - The family Tonnidae. 123 pp., 30 numb. plus 41 (1 col.) un-numb. text-figs, 33 maps., 63 col. pls, Conchbooks, Germany
• Vos, C. (2008) Tonnidae. in Poppe G.T. (ed.) Philippine Marine Mollusks, Volume 1: Gastropoda 1: 594–611, pls 242–250. Conchbooks, Hackenheim, Germany
• Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
• Vos, C. (2012) Overview of the Tonnidae (MOLLUSCA: GASTROPODA) in Chinese waters. Shell Discoveries 1(1); pp. 12–22; Pls. 1-9
• Vos, C. (2013) Overview of the Tonnidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Chinese waters. Gloria Maris 52(1-2); pp. 22–53; Pls. 1-9

External links

• Gastropods.com : Tonna (Chinensis complex) chinensis; accessed : 26 April 2011
• Dillwyn, 1817. Dillwyn, L. W. (1817). A descriptive catalogue of Recent shells, arranged according to the Linnean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. London: John and Arthur Arch. Vol. 1: 1-580; Vol. 2: 581-1092 + index
• Mörch, O. A. L. (1852-1853). Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, Regis Daniae Cubiculariorum Princeps, Ordinis Dannebrogici in Prima Classe & Ordinis Caroli Tertii Eques. Fasc. 1, Cephalophora, 170 pp. (1852); Fasc. 2, Acephala, Annulata, Cirripedia, Echinodermata, 74 (+2) pp. (1853). Hafniae [Copenhagen]: L. Klein
• Schepman, H. H. (1893). On a collection of Shells from the Moluccas. Notes from the Leyden Museum. 15: 147-159
• Sowerby, G. B. III. (1904). Descriptions of Dolium magnificum, n. sp., and Murex multispinosus, n. sp. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 4: 7-8
• Bayer C. (1937). Catalogue of the Doliidae in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. Zoologiscshe Mededelingen. 20(5): 29-50

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