Tonna chinensis

China tun
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Tonnidae
Genus:	Tonna
Species:	T. chinensis
Binomial name
	Tonna chinensis; (Dillwyn, 1817)
Synonyms[1]
	Buccinum chinense Dillwyn, 1817 (basionym); Dolium australe Mörch, 1853; Dolium magnificum Sowerby III, 1904; Dolium pictum Schepman, 1893; Dolium schepmani Bayer, 1937; Dolium variegatum Philippi, 1847; Dolium variegatum var. chinense Tryon, 1885; 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.[1]

Description

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

This species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific.[2]

Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2021). "Tonna chinensis (Hanley, 1860)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
"Tonna chinensis (Hanley, 1860)". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 29 April 2021.

Dillwyn, 1817. Des. Cat. Rec. Shells, 2: 583
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

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