Species Guide — Order

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Ostreida

Every species recorded at or below this order.
Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Autobranchia › Pteriomorphia

4 species documented

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Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Common Butterfly Shell

Electroma papilionacea

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Ostrea angasi

Red Australian Map shape with the word introduced over it

Magallana gigas

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Southern Sponge Finger

Vulsella ovata

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A small brown and white crab underwater

Three-Pronged Spider Crab Halicarcinus ovatus

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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 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 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