Species Guide — Marine Life — Shellfish

Marine
Life

Subcategory: Shellfish
Shellfish

Shellfish

183 species documented

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Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Round Wedge Shell

Atactodea cuneata

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

A white bivalve shell washed up on the sand and sea grass

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Image of Tasmania map with the words No Conservation Status

Slender Lantern-Shell

Laternula (Laternula) gracilis

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

A bivalve shell on a beach with sea grass around it

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Image of Tasmania map with the words No Conservation Status

Southern Brooch Shell

Neotrigonia margaritacea

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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

Thin white bivalve shells laying on sand

Limaria imitans

Limaria imitans a marine bivalve species washed up along Tomahawk Beach

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

A small brown and white crab underwater

Three-Pronged Spider Crab Halicarcinus ovatus

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