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Tasmantis

Tasmantis proper noun: zealandia.

Proper noun

Tasmantis

  1. (largely historical) Zealandia.
    • Our results support the hypothesis that skinks colonized Tasmantis by over-water dispersal initially to New Caledonia, then to Lord Howe Island, and finally to New Zealand.2007, Smith, S.A., Sadlier, R.A., Bauer, A.M., Austin, C.C. & Jackman, T., Molecular phylogeny of the scincid lizards of New Caledonia and adjacent areas: evidence for a single origin of the endemic...

Origin of Tasmantis

Likely from Tasman, with a suffix rebracketed from Atlantic or even Atlantis; coined in 1919 by geologists Carl Süssmilch and Edgeworth David

Questions about Tasmantis

What does Tasmantis mean?
Tasmantis means zealandia.
What part of speech is Tasmantis?
Tasmantis is a proper noun.

Words near Tasmantis in the dictionary

  1. Tasmanian wolf
  2. Tasmanian wolves
  3. Tasmanians
  4. tasmanite
  5. tasmanites
  6. Tasmantis
  7. Tasmina
  8. tasocitinib
  9. tasonermin
  10. tasosartan
  11. taspoglutide

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