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

Last build: Mon Jun 21 11:36:47 Tasmania Standard Time 2010

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Class list - taxonomic

According to available records, the following classes occur in Tasmania:

Aplacophora (aplacophorans)

Polyplacophora (chitons)

Bivalvia (clams, cockles, mussels, tellins, oysters, scallops etc.)

Scaphopoda (tusk-shells)

Cephalopoda (squid, cuttlefish, octopuses and nautiluses)

Gastropoda (limpets, top-shells, whelks, cowries, creepers, cone-shells, volutes, air-breathers, sea-slugs etc.)