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Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Gastropoda (class) » Littorinimorpha (order) » Tonnidae (family)

CAAB Code:	24 177001 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Tonna variegata (Lamarck, 1822)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.)
	CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC) Catalogue Number: MIIC-00960 CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200510_152_066 Survey: SS200510 [details] Date of image: 2005-12-12 00:00 Position: -21.9784° S 113.82° E Depth: 176.8 metres Image by: Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) Rights: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Family:	24 177 Tonnidae (tun shells) - show full list
Common Name:	[a tun shell]
Organism Type:	a tun shell
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	24 177903 Tonna spp.
Previous Codes (if any):	00 800632

Distribution map:
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Occurrence locations [10] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

Taxon Notes:

Some records of immature specimens of this species may be mis-identified specimens of Tonna chinensis.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:672567b5-77c6-4cb5-b715-c39ad8a37809 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:410322 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-06-17 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Record source:	Wilson, B., 1993, Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods Pt I. Odyssey Publishing, Leederville, W.A.
Scientific Name verified against:	Vos, C., 2005. Notes on Tonnidae of the T. variegata complex and T. chinensis complex, with descriptions of four new species (Gastropoda: Tonnidae)., Visaya, Vol. 1(5): 45-62.

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