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| Species: | T. olearium
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| Tonna olearium (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Buccinum olearium Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Tonna olearium is a large marine gastropod mollusc of the family Tonnidae, endemic to the Indo-Pacific oceans, north to Japan and south to northern New Zealand, at depths of about 35 m.
The shell is very large and thin, with a single spiral thread in each interspace of the corrugations.
Coloration is uniformly chestnut-brown, except for a fading to white in a broad subsutural band.
Height is up to 200 mm, and width 157 mm.
References
- Powell A W B, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1