| Tanea zelandica | |
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| A shell of Tanea zelandica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Naticidae |
| Genus: | Tanea |
| Species: | T. zelandica |
| Binomial name | |
| Tanea zelandica (Quoy and Gaimard, 1832) |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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. [1]
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The size of an adult shell varies between 15 mm and 33 mm
This marine species is found along New Zealand.