A Guide to the Seashells and other Marine Molluscs of Tasmania, by Simon Grove 

Last build: Sun Aug 22 09:07:46 Tasmania Standard Time 2010

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Alphabetical list of genera           Alphabetical list of genera by common name     

Step up two levels to superfamily (or taxon of roughly equivalent rank) Scissurelloidea       Step up a level to family (-subfamily) Anatomidae

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Genus Anatoma Woodward, 1859 - “slit-shells”  


In Tasmania, this genus includes the following species:

Anatoma australis (Southern slit-shell)