Tons , or barrels [1] ( lat. Tonnidae ) , is a family of marine gastropod mollusks .
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 Sink Tonna galea | ||||||||||||||||
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| Tonnidae Suter, 1913 |
Description
Large or medium sized clams. The shell of the representatives of the family have a spherical-oval shape. shell with 4–5 moderately convex turns, thin-walled with a short curl and round mouth. The surface of the sink is smooth. There is no operclum [2] [3] .
They live on a sandy and silty bottom at a depth of 5-80 meters. Predators feed on echinoderms , preferring holothurians . Saliva contains free sulfuric acid , as well as aspartic acid , which makes the echinoderms numb [4] [5] [6] .
Classification
- Eudolium Dall , 1889
- Malea Vallenciennes, 1832
- Tonna Brunnich, 1771
Tonna allium
Tonna pennata
Tonna maculosa
Tonna perdix
Tonna perdix
Tonna sulcosa
Notes
- ↑ Ershov V.E. , Kantor Yu. I. Sea shells. Brief identifier. - M .: Italic, 2008 .-- S. 124. - 3,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-89592-059-6 .
- ↑ Brem A. Animal Life. - M .: Eksmo, 2004 .-- 960 p.: Ill. - ISBN 5-699-00692-3 .
- ↑ Brüggemann C. (1838). Die Naturgeschichte in getreuen Abbildungen und mit ausführlicher Beschreibung derselben. Verlag von Eduard Eisenach, Leipzig 1838. Die Weichthiere, S. 66. e) Tonne (Dolium).
- ↑ Morris, Percy A. (2001). A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 206
- ↑ Houbrick, Joseph R .; Fretter, Vera (1969). Some Aspects of the Functional Anatomy and Biology of Cymatium and Bursa. Journal of Molluscan Studies. Oxford University Press on behalf of The Malacological Society of London 38 (5): 415-429.
- ↑ Alyakrinskaya IO (2002). Morphofunctional Properties of Nutrition of Certain Predatory Gastropods. Biology Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Springer Publishing 29 (6): 589-600.