Tanea
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Tanea is a genus
Genus
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 of sea snail
Snail
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s, marine
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 gastropod molluscs in the family
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 Naticidae
Naticidae
Naticidae, common name the moon snails, is a family of minute to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.Naticidae is the only family in the superfamily Naticoidea....

, the moon snails or necklace shells.

Species

Species within the genus Tanea include:
  • Tanea acinonyx (March-Marchad, 1956)
  • Tanea aerolata (Récluz, 1844)
  • Tanea euzona
    Tanea euzona
    Tanea euzona is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....

    (Récluz, 1844)
  • Tanea hilaris (G.B.Sowerby III, 1914)
  • Tanea tenuipicta (Kuroda, 1961)
  • Tanea undulata
    Tanea undulata
    Tanea undulata, common name the necklace shell, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a predatory marine gastropod mollusc in the Family Naticidae, the moon snails or necklace shells.-References:*...

    (Röding, P.F., 1798)
  • Tanea zelandica
    Tanea zelandica
    Tanea zelandica, common name the necklace shell or the New Zealand Moon Snail, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a predatory marine gastropod mollusc in the Family Naticidae, the moon snails or necklace shells...

    (Quoy and Gaimard, 1832

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan database includes also the following species with names in current use
    • Tanea euzona euzona (Récluz, 1844-b)
    • Tanea euzona magnifluctuata (Kuroda, 1961-a)
  • Tanea lemniscata (Philippi, 1853 in 1849-53)
  • Tanea lineata (Röding, 1798)
  • Tanea luculenta Iredale, 1929
  • Tanea mozaica (Sowerby, 1833)
  • Tanea pavimentum (Récluz, 1844-b)
  • Tanea picta (Récluz, 1844)
  • Tanea sagittata (Menke, 1843)
  • Tanea shoichiroi (Kuroda, 1961-a)
  • Tanea tabularis (Kuroda, 1961)
  • Tanea tosaensis (Kuroda, 1961-a)
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