Tonna (gastropod)

Tonna
Five views of a shell of Tonna galea
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Tonnidae
Genus: Tonna
Brunnich, 1772
Type species
Buccinum galea
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Cadium Link, 1807
  • Cadus Röding, 1798
  • Dolium Lamarck, 1801
  • Dolium (Dolium) Lamarck, 1801 (Recombination as subgenus)
  • Foratidolium Rovereto, 1899 (Replacement name for Perdix Montfort, 1810 (non Brisson, 1760))
  • Macgillivrayia Forbes, 1852
  • Parvitonna Iredale, 1931
  • Perdix Montfort, 1810 (Invalid: junior homonym of Perdix Brisson, 1760 [Aves]; Foratidolium is a replacement name)
  • Tonna (Tonna) Brünnich, 1771 (Recombination as subgenus)

Tonna is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tonnidae, the tun or cask shells.

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