Species Tonna tankervillii (Hanley, 1860)

• Dolium amphora Philippi, R.A. 1849. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig gekannter Conchylien unter mithufte meherer deutscher Conchyliologen. Cassel : Theodor Fischer Vol. 3 pp. 1-88. [Vol. 3 published in 4 sections from 1847 to 1850] [12].
• Dolium variegatum Reeve, L.A. 1849. Monograph of the genus Dolium. pls 5-8 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 5. [pl. 5, fig. 7a] [junior homonym; not Lamarck, 1822].
• Dolium variegatum tankervillii Hanley, S. 1860. Systematic list of the species of Dolium restricted. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 27: 487-493 [490] [as Dolium variegatum var. tankervillii].

  Type data:

   Lectotype LMRC.1957.173.29077 (in Leeds Museums and Galleries), unknown location.
• Tonna cerevisina Hedley, C. 1919. A review of the Australian Tun Shells. Records of the Australian Museum 12(11): 329-336, pls 39-44 [330, pls 39-41, figs 1-3].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.45030 dry, in mud, Sydney, Port Jackson, off Georges Head, New South Wales, Australia [33°50'31.2"S, 151°15'39.6"E].
• Tonna cerevisina haurakiensis Hedley, C. 1919. A review of the Australian Tun Shells. Records of the Australian Museum 12(11): 329-336, pls 39-44 [331] [as Tonna cerevisina var. haurakiensis].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Vos, C. & Terryn, Y. in Poppe, G.T. & Groh, K. (eds) 2007. A Conchological Iconography. The family Tonnidae. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-121, 63 pls. [102] (see for complete synonymy)

Generic Combinations

• Tonna tankervillii (Hanley, 1860). —
  Vos, C. & Terryn, Y. in Poppe, G.T. & Groh, K. (eds) 2007. A Conchological Iconography. The family Tonnidae. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-121, 63 pls. [102, pls 50-52]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand flats, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 50 m

General References

Beechey, D. 2000. Tonna cerevisina Hedley, 1919. The seashells of New South Wales website. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Tonnidae/Pages/tonna_cerevisina.htm (as Tonna cerevisina date accessed 19/7/2012)

Hedley, C. 1919. A review of the Australian Tun Shells. Records of the Australian Museum 12(11): 329-336, pls 39-44 [330-331] (as Tonna cerevisina)

Hinton, A.G. 1978. Guide to Australian Shells. Port Moresby : Robert Brown & Associates 82 pp. [26, fig. 1] (as Tonna cerevisina)

Jansen, P. 1995. Seashells of Central New South Wales. Townsville pp. 1-129. [48, fig. 171] (as Tonna variegata)

Jansen, P. 2000. Seashells of South-East Australia. Lindfield : Capricornica Publications 117 pp. [38, fig. 146] (as Tonna variegata)

Vos, C. & Terryn, Y. in Poppe, G.T. & Groh, K. (eds) 2007. A Conchological Iconography. The family Tonnidae. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-121, 63 pls. [102-103, pls 50-52]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [253] (as Tonna variegata in part)

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