Species Guide — Marine Life — Shellfish

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Subcategory: Shellfish
Shellfish

Shellfish

179 species documented

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A reddish brown chiton with four white bands on a rock underwater

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Saint Aloysius' Top-shell

Clanculus aloysii

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Katelysia scalarina

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Scaly Ark Shell

Acar squamosa

A flattened oval shaped shell on sand

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Scutellastra peronii

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Scaly Star Shell

Bellastraea squamifera

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Sigapatella calyptraeformis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Shining Venus Shell

Eumarcia fumigata

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Short Top Shell

Austrocochlea brevis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Maoricrypta immersa

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Snakeskin Chiton

Sypharochiton pelliserpentis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Solid Air Breather

Phallomedusa solida

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Sordid Moon Snail

Conuber sordidum

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Southern Chiton

Ischnochiton australis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Southern Dove Shell

Mitrella austrina

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Turriplicifer australis

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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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A marine flatworm on a rock underwater

Carpet Flatworm (Thysanozoon brocchii)

Carpet Flatworm (Thysanozoon brocchii) <br><br> https://tomahawk.org.au/flora-fauna/view-species/thysanozoon-brocchii

Thin white bivalve shells laying on sand

Limaria imitans

Limaria imitans a marine bivalve species washed up along Tomahawk Beach