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

Gallery

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  Tanea pavimentum
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  A shell of Tanea zelandica
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  Tanea undulata, apertural view
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  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