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Scientific Name: Tonna dolium (Linnaeus, 1758)
English Name: Spotted tun
Spotted tun - - Tonna dolium - Type: Sea_snails

Photo: GBIF

Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mullusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Tonnidae
Description:
Shell very large,thin, globose, sutures canaliculated, spire low, and body whorl inflated. Aperture very wide, showing spiral depressions corresponding to the ribs on the dorsal surface, outer lip simple, thin and fluted, columella almost straight, without a parietal shield, twisted conspicuously on the basal part, umbilicus open and deep. Sculptured with broad, flat, raised, widely spaced spiral ribs, two to three on the penultimate whorl and about thirteen to fourteen on the body whorl, with threads in the intermediate spaces. Colour white to cream, ornamented with rectangular or quadrate orange brown spots on the ribs, apex and aperture brown
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Sonadia Island and in the deep sea
Environment:
Marine
Main References:

Siddiqui KU, Islam MA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondker M, Rahman MM (2007) Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 17. Molluscs. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka 415 pp.

Other References:

Hossain MS, Sharifuzzaman SM, Chowdhury SR, Chowdhury MSN, Sarkar S, Islam MR, Talukder A (2014) Sea Shells of Bangladesh: Marine Gastropod and Bivalve Molluscs Biodiversity.1-44pp

Antu DR, Islam TT, Ahmed MR, Ahmed S, Datta SK, Ahmed MS (2023) Diversity of Bivalves and Gastropods in Sonadia Island, Bangladesh. Bioresearch Communications-(BRC), 9(01), 1225-1236. https://doi.org/10.3329/brc.v9i1.63603

Bhuiyan, M. M. S. Malacofaunal Diversity in Sonadia Island of Bangladesh.

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