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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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Subclass list - alphabetical
According to available records, the following subclasses (or taxa of roughly equivalent rank) occur in Tasmania:
Caenogastropoda - Sorbeoconcha (creepers, dialas, screw-shells, worm-shells, winkles, wentletraps, cowries, cone-shells, volutes, murex-shells etc.)
Chaetodermomorpha (aplacophorans)
Chelodina (chitons)
Coleoidea (squid, cuttlefish, octopuses and nautiluses)
Heterobranchia (sundial-shells, pyramid-shells, sea-slugs, sea-hares, bubble-shells, umbrella-snails, siphon-shells, air-breathers etc.)
Heterodonta (venus-clams, wedge-shells, trough-shells, lucines, arc-mussels, jewel-boxes, cockles, thickshell-clams, lepton-clams etc.)
Neomeniomorpha (aplacophorans)
Neritimorpha (nerites and false-limpets)
Palaeoheterodonta (brooch-shells)
Patellogastropoda (limpets)
Protobranchia (nut-shells, neilo-clams, sarepta-clams, nutlet-shells, date-shells and nucinellid-clams)
Pteriomorphia (ark-shells, dog-cockles, micromussels, file-shells, mussels, pen-shells, butterfly-shells, oysters, scallops and thorny-oysters)
Scaphopoda (tusk-shells)
Vetigastropoda (turban-shells, star-shells, pheasant-shells, keyhole-limpets, notch-limpets, abalones, slit-shells and cap-limpets)
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