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Giant Tun Snail
H. Zell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via iNaturalist

Snails & slugs

Giant Tun Snail

Tonna galea (Linnaeus, 1758)

Names

EnglishGiant Tun Snail
DutchReuzentonhoren
SpanishTonel
Chinese盔鹑螺
Scientific nameTonna galea (Linnaeus, 1758)

About this species

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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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumMollusca
ClassGastropoda
OrderLittorinimorpha
FamilyTonnidae
GenusTonna

In Suriname

32Records in Suriname
1911First record
2016Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Commewijne1
  • Paramaribo1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

Records by month

All years combined.

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