Species Guide — Marine Life — Shellfish

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Subcategory: Shellfish
Shellfish

Shellfish

179 species documented

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Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Frilled Venus Shell

Bassina disjecta

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Plaxiphora albida

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Gold-mouthed Conniwink

Bembicium auratum

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Golden Small Star

Bellastraea aurea

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Cacozeliana granarium

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Granose Wentletrap

Opalia granosa

Live abalone on a rock in underwater

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Greenlip Abalone

Haliotis laevigata

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Gunn's Screw Shell

Gazameda gunnii

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Half-Grained Helmet

Semicassis semigranosa

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Horse Hoof Limpet

Sabia australis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Imbricated False Ear Shell

Granata imbricata

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Imitating File Shell

Limaria imitans

A greensih brown banded shell on sand

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Impoverished Dog Whelk

Nassarius pauperatus

A pinkish conical shell amoungst seaweed on the beach

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Jeweled Top Shell

Astele armillata

A long white shell Epitonium jukesianum laying on course sand

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Jukes wentletrap

Epitonium jukesianum

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Keeled Clanculus

Clanculus limbatus

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Thin white bivalve shells laying on sand

Limaria imitans

Limaria imitans a marine bivalve species washed up along Tomahawk Beach

A sea-slug on a rock underwater

Macleay’s sea-slug (Baeolidia macleayi)

Macleay’s sea-slug (Baeolidia macleayi)<br><br> https://tomahawk.org.au/flora-fauna/view-species/baeolidia-macleayi

Hermit crab in a shell underwater

A small hermit crab species this guy is under 10mm in size

A small brown and white crab underwater

Three-Pronged Spider Crab Halicarcinus ovatus

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