Species Diaphana tasmanica (Beddome, 1883)

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• Akera tasmanica Beddome, C.E. 1883. Description of some new marine shells of Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1882: 167-170 [Date published 1883] [169].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, off Old Station, Browns River Road, TAS, 15 m.

Generic Combinations

• Diaphana tasmanica (Beddome, 1883).

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand; 0–10 m.

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Burn, R. 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Report 10: 1-42 [8]

Gatliff, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1908. On some new species of Victorian marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 21(1): 365-367, pl. 21 [pl. 21, fig. 6-7] (shell figured)

May, W.L. 1923. An illustrated index of Tasmanian shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp. [Date published 31 July 1923] [pl. 46, fig. 15] (shell figured)

Schiøtte, T. 1998. A taxonomic revision of the genus Diaphana Brown, 1827, including a discussion of the phylogeny and zoogeography of the genus (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). Steenstrupia 24(1): 77–140 [fig. 7D-H, 8B] (shell figured)

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