Description
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As T. canaliculata, but shell less inflated, columella much reduced, up to 15 cm. Colour pale to dark brown, mottled with patches of white. Habitat: buried in offshore sands. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. (Richmond, 1997).
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- Morton, B. (1991) Aspects of Predation by <i>Tonna zonatum</i> (PROSOBRANCHIA: TONNOIDEA) Feeding on Holothurians in Hong Kong. J. Moll. Stud. (1991), 57, 11-19. Drivas, J.; Jay, M. (1987). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'Île Maurice. Collection Les Beautés de la Nature. Delachaux et Niestlé: Neuchâtel. ISBN 2-603-00654-1. 159 pp. Beu, A. G. (2005) Neogene fossil tonnoidean gastropods of Indonesia. Scripta Geologica 130, p. 1-186, pp. 166, figs. 327
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- Edward Vanden Berghe [email]
Diet
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Morton (1991:12) lists 5 species of holothuria as being a part of the preferred food sources of Tonna perdix (Linnaeus, 1758): Holothuria atra (fide Kropp, 1982; Kohn, 1983) Stichopus horrens (fide Kropp, 1982; Guille et al., 1986) Stichopus chloronatus (fide Kropp, 1982) Holothuria cinerascens (fide Kropp, 1982) Holothuria hilla (fide Kropp, 1982)
Morton, B. (1991) Aspects of Predation by
Tonna zonatum (PROSOBRANCHIA: TONNOIDEA) Feeding on Holothurians in Hong Kong. J. Moll. Stud. (1991), 57, 11-19.
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- Morton, B. (1991) Aspects of Predation by <i>Tonna zonatum</i> (PROSOBRANCHIA: TONNOIDEA) Feeding on Holothurians in Hong Kong. J. Moll. Stud. (1991), 57, 11-19. Drivas, J.; Jay, M. (1987). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'Île Maurice. Collection Les Beautés de la Nature. Delachaux et Niestlé: Neuchâtel. ISBN 2-603-00654-1. 159 pp. Beu, A. G. (2005) Neogene fossil tonnoidean gastropods of Indonesia. Scripta Geologica 130, p. 1-186, pp. 166, figs. 327
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- Vos, Chris, C.
