Eudolium pyriforme
| False tun shell | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Tonnidae |
| Genus: | Eudolium |
| Species: | E. pyriforme
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| Binomial name | |
| Eudolium pyriforme (G. B. Sowerby III, 1914)
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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