Publisher ID:
238
Our code:
MC-HR-HPT-1997-04-22-3/3
Country:
Publisher:
Croatian Post and Telecommunications
Design:
Ivica Belinić
Printing:
AKD d.o.o.
Stamp value:
3,60 HRK
Date of stamp issue:
Cancelled:
Theme:
Fauna of Croatia
In the member's collection
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.