Tonna perdix

Taxobox
name = "Tonna perdix"

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Neotaenioglossa
familia = Tonnidae
genus = "Tonna"
species = "T. perdix"
binomial = "Tonna perdix"
binomial_authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)
synonyms =

"Tonna perdix" is a very large species of sea snail or tun snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells.

Distribution

This species is found in the Indo-Pacific oceans.

hell description

The shell height is up to 200 mm.

Description of soft parts

The mantle of the living animal is dark brown, with random radial streaks of white.

Life habits

This large snail emerges from sand at night to search for its prey, holothurians. Empty shells are commonly inhabited by hermit crabs

References

* Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1