Tanea

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

Tanea
Live Tanea undulata from East Timor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Naticoidea
Family:
Naticidae
Genus:
Tanea

Marwick, 1931
Type species
Natica zelandica Quoy & Gaimard, 1832
Species

See text

Species

Species within the genus Tanea include:

  • Tanea aerolata (Récluz, 1844)
  • † Tanea consortis (Finlay, 1924)
  • Tanea euzona (Récluz, 1844)
  • Tanea hilaris (G.B.Sowerby III, 1914)
  • Tanea hollmanni Poppe, Tagaro & Stahlschmidt, 2015
  • † Tanea inexpectata (Finlay, 1924)
  • Tanea lineata (Röding, 1798)
  • Tanea magnifluctuata (Kuroda, 1961)
  • Tanea mozaica (Sowerby, 1833)
  • Tanea pavimentum (Récluz, 1844)
  • Tanea picta (Récluz, 1844)
  • † Tanea pittensis (Marwick, 1928)
  • † Tanea praeconsors (Finlay, 1924)
  • Tanea sagittata (Menke, 1843)
  • † Tanea sublata (Marwick, 1924)
  • Tanea tabularis (Kuroda, 1961)
  • Tanea tenuipicta (Kuroda, 1961)
  • Tanea tosaensis (Kuroda, 1961)
  • Tanea undulata (Röding, P.F., 1798)
  • Tanea zelandica (Quoy and Gaimard, 1832

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan database includes also the following species with names in current use [1]

  • Tanea shoichiroi (Kuroda, 1961)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Tanea acinonyx (March-Marchad, 1956) : synonym of Natica acinonyx Marche-Marchad, 1957
  • Tanea euzona magnifluctuata (Kuroda, 1961): synonym of Tanea magnifluctuata (Kuroda, 1961)
  • Tanea lemniscata (Philippi, 1853 in 1849-53): synonym of Natica marochiensis (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Tanea luculenta Iredale, 1929: synonym of Natica luculenta Iredale, 1929
  • Tanea pavimentum
  • A shell of Tanea zelandica
  • Tanea undulata, apertural view
  • Tanea undulata, abapertural view

References
  1. OBIS : Tanea
  • Powell A. W. B. (1979), New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 0-00-216906-1


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