Tambja verconis

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| taxon = Tambja verconis

| authority = (Basedow and Hedley, 1905)

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| synonyms = Nembrotha verconis Basedow and Heldey, 1905

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Tambja verconis, common name Verco's nudibranch,{{cite web|url=http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:2c9e300a-045f-47d9-820c-7b175eefc907|title=Tambja verconis (Basedow & Hedley, 1905)|publisher=Atlas of Living Australia|accessdate=14 June 2014}} is a species of brightly coloured sea slug,{{cite web|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/8018/tambja-verconis|title=Te Ara - Earth, Sea and Sky - Tambja verconis|work=Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand|publisher=Ministry for Culture and Heritage|accessdate=11 July 2014}} also known as a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Polyceridae.{{cite web|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=531168|title=WoRMS taxon details - Tambja verconis (Basedow & Hedley, 1905) |publisher=World Register of Marine Species|accessdate=14 June 2014}}

This is the type species of the genus Tambja.{{cite journal|author1= Marta Pola |author2= J. Lucas Cervera|author3= Terrence M. Gosliner|date=2005|title=Four New Species of Tambja (Burn, 1962) (Nudibranchia: Polyceridae) from the Indo-Pacific|journal=Journal of Molluscan Studies|publisher=Oxford University Press|volume=71|pages=257–267|issn=1464-3766|doi=10.1093/mollus/eyi034 |url=http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/71/3/257.full.pdf|accessdate=14 June 2014|doi-access=free}}