''Tasmatica'', common name necklace shells, is a

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sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

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Naticidae Naticidae, common name moon snails or necklace shells, is a family (biology), family of medium to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. The shells of the species in this family a ...

, the moon snails or necklace shells.

Species

* '' Tasmatica modestina'' Ludbrook, 1958 * '' Tasmatica schoutanica'' (May, 1912) - synonym: ''Notocochlis schoutanica diatheca'' Iredale, 1936 * '' Tasmatica sticta'' (Verco, 1909)Global Names Index: Tasmatica
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References

* 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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Naticidae Taxa named by Harold John Finlay {{Naticidae-stub