🦋 Family

Tonnidae

7 species · Animals

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Littorinimorpha › Tonnidae

Malea ringens is a large Panamic sea snail with a distinctively structured shell, found from Mexico to Peru off the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific.

Malea pomum is a marine snail species with a spotted 40–90 mm shell, found across the Red Sea and tropical Indo-West Pacific.

Tonna galea, the giant tun, is a large, rare, luminescent carnivorous sea snail found in Atlantic and Mediterranean waters.

Tonna pennata is a large predatory sea snail found in shallow Atlantic tropical waters that preys mainly on sea cucumbers.

Tonna perdix is a sea snail named for its partridge-like shell pattern, found across the Red Sea, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.

Tonna dolium is a marine gastropod with a distinctively ribbed spotted shell found in parts of the Indo-West Pacific.

Tonna tankervillii is a marine species with shells up to 23 cm tall, found in Australia and northeast New Zealand.

Related Families

Cypraeidae 60 species Littorinidae 43 species Naticidae 25 species Strombidae 20 species Calyptraeidae 17 species Cymatiidae 15 species Cassidae 14 species Ovulidae 12 species

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