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Tonna galea (giant tun)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Tonna galea, commonly known as the giant tun, is a species of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tonnidae (also known as the tun shells). This very large sea snail or tun snail is found in the North Atlantic Ocean as far as the coast of West Africa, in the Mediterranean Sea and the Caribbean Sea. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.
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Infraspecies

Tonna galea galea
Tonna galea germanai

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Il-Bahar bejn Rdum Majjiesa u Ras ir-Raheb 2097 Malta  
Parco marino di Punta degli Infreschi 12143 Italy  

Ecosystems

Predators

Aetobatus narinari (White-spotted eagle ray)[1]
Lutjanus campechanus (Red snapper)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Clownfish and their Host Anemones ;; NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0