Eudolium pyriforme
Eudolium pyriforme | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
Family: | Tonnidae |
Genus: | Eudolium |
Species: | E. pyriforme |
Binomial name | |
Eudolium pyriforme (G. B. Sowerby III, 1914) | |
Eudolium pyriforme, common name the false tun shell, is a species of large, rare, deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tonnidae, the tun snails.
This species has a wide distribution, including Australia, Hawaii, Japan, New Zealand,[1] and South Africa.[2]
References
- ↑ Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- ↑ Sea Shells of New South Wales
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