Tasmantis

== English == === Etymology === Likely from Tasman, with a suffix rebracketed from Atlantic or even Atlantis; coined in 1919 by geologists Carl Süssmilch and Edgeworth David === Proper noun === Tasmantis (largely historical) Zealandia. 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 skinks of Tasmantis., Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 43, pages 1151–1166: 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. === References ===