Eudolium pyriforme

Taxobox
name = "Eudolium pyriforme"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Neotaenioglossa
familia = Tonnidae
genus = Eudolium
species = "E. pyriforme"
binomial = "Eudolium pyriforme"
binomial_authority = (Sowerby, 1914)

"Eudolium pyriforme", or false tun shell, is a species of large, rare, deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tonnidae, the tun snails.

Distribution

This species is found in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean from South Africa to Japan, Hawaii, northern New Zealand, and northeast Australia.

Habitat

This false tun snail lives at depths of between 100 and 200 metres.

hell description

The shell is light in weight, sculptured with about 24 spiral ribs with a smaller rib between. There is a thin varix on the outer lip. The columellar callus is thin, with underlying ribs showing though. The umbilicus is closed.

The external shell coloration is white with brown patches. Some of the spiral cords have brown spotting.

The shell length is up to 85 mm.

References

* Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* [http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Tonnidae/Pages/eudolium_pyriforme.htm Sea Shells of New South Wales]