Eudolium bairdii
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| Eudolium bairdii | |
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| Specimen from the Beijing Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Tonnidae |
| Genus: | Eudolium |
| Species: | E. bairdii |
| Binomial name | |
| Eudolium bairdii | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Dolium (Eudolium) bituminatum Martin, 1933 | |
Eudolium bairdii, common name Baird's bonnet, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells.[1]
This marine species has a circumtropical distribution in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.[1][2][3] The species is recorded recorded off South and East coast of South Africa at depths between 100 m and 500 m.[4]
