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Tasmatica

Tasmatica, common name necklace shells, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Naticidae, the moon snails or necklace shells.

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Tasmatica
shell of Tasmatica schoutanica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Naticidae
Subfamily: Naticinae
Genus: Tasmatica
Finlay & Marwick, 1937
Type species
Natica schoutanica May, 1913

Tasmatica, common name necklace shells, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Naticidae, the moon snails or necklace shells.1

Species

  • Tasmatica modestina Ludbrook, 19582
  • Tasmatica schoutanica (May, 1912)3 - synonym: Notocochlis schoutanica diatheca Iredale, 1936
  • Tasmatica sticta (Verco, 1909)4
References

References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tasmatica Finlay & Marwick, 1937. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=584722 on 2025-08-03
  2. GBIF : Tasmatica modestina
  3. "OBIS : Tasmatica". Archived from the original on 2012-03-22. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
  4. "Global Names Index: Tasmatica". Archived from the original on 2012-03-06. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
  • Finlay, H. J. & Marwick, J. (1937). The Wangaloan and associated molluscan faunas of Kaitangata-Green Island subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey Palæontological Bulletin. 15, 1–140, 18 pls.
  • Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F., 1962, A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales(p. 57), Mem. Aust. Mus., 11:0-0.
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