Costate tun
Two views of a shell of Tonna allium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Tonnidae
Genus:	Tonna
Species:	T. allium
Binomial name
Tonna allium (Dillwyn, 1817)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Buccinum allium Dillwyn, 1817 Buccinum latescens Schröter in Martini, 1788 Cadus albus Röding, 1798 Dolium (Dolium) costatum Menke, 1828 superseded combination Dolium (Dolium) costatum var. picta Hanley, 1860 superseded combination Dolium (Dolium) dolium var. natalensis E. A. Smith, 1906 Dolium costatum Menke, 1828 Dolium costatum Deshayes, 1844 (invalid: junior homonym of Dolium costatum Menke, 1828) † Dolium costatum martini O. Boettger, 1883 superseded combination † Dolium costatum var. martini O. Boettger, 1883 Dolium fasciatum Bruguière, 1789 Dolium fasciatum var. Kiener, 1835 non Buccinum fasciatum Bruguière, 1789 Dolium fimbriatum var. natalensis E. A. Smith, 1906 Dolium hochstetteri K. Martin, 1879 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym Dolium lactescens Martini, 1777 (Unavailable under Dir. 1.) Dolium latescens Schröter, 1788 Dolium latesulcatum Hanley, 1860 Dolium latesulcatum var. picta Hanley, 1860 Dolium natalensis Bartsch, 1915 Tonna (Tonna) costata (Menke, 1828) > superseded combination Tonna (Tonna) dolium natalensis (E. A. Smith, 1906) superseded combination † Tonna (Tonna) hochstetteri (K. Martin, 1879) Tonna costata Tonna hardyi Bozzetti & Ferrario, 2005 Tonna fimbriata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1827) (Recombination) Tonna hardyi Bozzetti & Ferrario, 2005

Tonna allium, common name the costate tun, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells.^[2]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 50 mm and 131 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin and Mauritius.

References

• Martin, K. (1879-1880). Die Tertiärschichten auf Java, nach den Entdeckungen von Fr. Junghuhn. Leiden: Brill. [Paleontologischer Theil, 1–126 (1879); 127–164, i–vi (plate captions) (1880); Allgemeiner Theil, 1–51 (1880); Anhang, 1–6 (1880); Title page and Vorwort, i–ix,
• Smith, E. A. 1906. On South African marine Mollusca, with descriptions of new species. Annals of the Natal Government Museum 1:19-71, pls. 7-8
• Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
• Cernohorsky. W. O. (1972). Marine Shells of the Pacific. Vol. II. Pacific Publications, Sydney, 411 pp.
• Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
• Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius
• Bozzetti L. & Ferrario M. (2005) Three new species and a new subspecies from the South-Western Indian Ocean (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Turbinidae, Tonnidae, Buccinidae, Conidae). Visaya 1(4): 51–58. [April 2005]
• Steyn, D. G.; Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 Gastropods. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.
• Beu, A. G. (2005) Neogene fossil tonnoidean gastropods of Indonesia. Scripta Geologica 130, p. 1-186, pp. 166, figs. 327
• 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
• Vos, C. (2008) Tonnidae. in Poppe G.T. (ed.) Philippine Marine Mollusks, Volume 1: Gastropoda 1: 594–611, pls 242–250. Conchbooks, Hackenheim, Germany.
• Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
• Vos, C. (2012) Overview of the Tonnidae (MOLLUSCA: GASTROPODA) in Chinese waters. Shell Discoveries 1(1); pp. 12–22; Pls. 1-9
• Vos, C. (2013) Overview of the Tonnidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Chinese waters. Gloria Maris 52(1-2); pp. 22–53; Pls. 1-9
• Severns, M. (2011). Shells of the Hawaiian Islands - The Sea Shells. Conchbooks, Hackenheim. 564 pp.

External links

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• gastropods.com : Tonna (Dolium complex) allium; accessed : 26 April 2011
• Menke, K. T. (1828). Synopsis methodica molluscorum generum omnium et specierum earum, quae in Museo Menkeano adservantur; cum synonymia critica et novarum specierum diagnosibus. XII + 91 pp.
• Dillwyn, 1817. A descriptive catalogue of Recent shells, arranged according to the Linnean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. London: John and Arthur Arch. Vol. 1: 1-580; Vol. 2: 581-1092 + index
• Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp.
• Schröter, J. S. in Martini, F.H.W. (1788) Vollstandiges alphabetisches Namen-Register über alle Zehn Bande des von dem feel. Herrn D. Martini in Berlin angefangenen, und vom Herrn Pastor Chemnitz in Kopenhagen fortgesetzten und vollenbeten Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinets. Nürnberg, in der Rasplichen Buchhandlung, 1788
• Martini, F. H. W. (1777) Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet. Nach der Natur gezeichnet und mit lebendigen Farben erleuchtet. III
• Hanley, S. (1860). Systematic list of the species of Dolium restricted. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1859, 27: 487-493.
• Boettger, O. (1883). Mollusca. In Verbeek, R. D. M., Boettger, O. & von Fritsch, K. (Eds.) Die Tertiärformation von Sumatra und ihre Thierreste. Palaeontographica, Supplement. 3(10/11), pp. 1-151
• Deshayes, G. P. & Milne-Edwards, H. (1844). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent, par J. B. P. A. de Lamarck. Deuxième édition, Tome dixième. Histoire des Mollusques. J. B. Baillière: Paris. 638 pp.