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Jukes' Keyhole Limpet, Diodora jukesii. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Jukes' Keyhole Limpet
Summary
Jukes' Keyhole Limpet is one of the most common marine snails along the northern coast of Australia. It has strong ribbing and is mostly associated with subtidal rocky reefs and rock platforms.
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Leaden Sand Snail, Conuber sordidus. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Leaden Sand Snail
Summary
The Leaden Sand Snail is one of the largest, most common sand snails found on sand-and mud-flats along the eastern and southern coasts of Australia. It produces large crescent-shaped jelly-like egg masses.
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Lined Nerita, Nerita balteata. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Lined Nerite
Summary
The Lined Nerite is characterised by its finely grooved shell. This species of Nerite snail lives in association with mangrove trees. It is found in Tropical Australia.
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Cart-rut Whelk, Dicathais orbita. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Cart-rut Whelk
Summary
The Cart-rut Whelk is instantly identified by its deeply grooved shell sculpture (like the marks left by a cart in mud). This species lives exclusively in high energy rocky shorelines or platforms, often at or just below the tideline. It is found on the eastern and southern coasts of Australia and also New Zealand.
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Giant Squid, Architeuthis dux. © Queensland Museum, John Healy.
Giant Squid
Summary
Giant Squid are among the world's largest molluscs (the longest recorded being approximately 13 metres), and heaviest invertebrates (up to half a tonne). Only the Colossal Squid is thought to be larger (14 metres).
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Day Octopus, Octopus cyanea. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Cephalopods
Summary
This entirely marine class includes such familiar animals as the octopus, cuttlefish and squid and also the so-called ‘living-fossil’ Nautilus and the extinct ammonites. As the name suggests the limbs are closely associated with the head, and in most cephalopods these limbs (arms and tentacles) possess numerous suckers which help to secure prey. Many species of squid, octopus and cuttlefish are of major commercial importance (primarily as seafood).
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Cuttlebone, Sepia sp. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Cuttlebone
Summary
Cuttlebones are hard, ridged, shield-like objects that have a soft spongy inner layer and are frequently found on beaches, often in great clumps after storms. They are in fact the internal shells of cuttlefish, relatives of the octopus and squid. There are many species worldwide and several unique ones in Queensland’s waters.
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Fragile File Clam, Limaria fragilis. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Fragile File Clam
Summary
File Clams live on the underside of rocks, or under shell rubble in rock pools in the intertidal zone. They filter feed on plankton, and their swimming behaviour undoubtedly helps them evade predators. File Clams occur throughout the Indo-west Pacific.
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Purple-mouthed Kookaburra Whelk, Gyrineum lacunatum. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Purple-mouthed Kookaburra Whelk
Summary
The Purple-mouthed Kookaburra Whelk is so named because of its striking profile resemblance to a perched kookaburra and the purple tinge around the aperture. In reality it is actually a species of triton - Family Cymatiidae. The species is distributed across the Indo-West Pacific.
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Zebra Volute, Amoria zebra. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Zebra Volute
Summary
The Zebra Volute lives in shallow, usually subtidal sand banks where it seeks out other snails and clams for food. The striped colour pattern on the shell (length to 50mm) gives the species its common name, but there are several other species of Australian volute which likewise have striped shells. It is found from Queensland to New South Wales only.
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Spike-top apple snail, Pomacea diffusa. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Spike-top Apple Snail
Summary
Apple Snails are freshwater snails commonly sold in the aquarium trade for the purpose of keeping aquarium glass clean of algae. However, if released, these snails, native to South America, are a potentially serious biological threat to the waterways of Australia.
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A pair of Fine-speckled Semi-slugs, Stanisicarion virens. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Fine-speckled Semi-slug
Summary
The Fine-speckled Semi-slug has an attractive, medium-sized, ear-shaped shell with a silky, amber-green appearance. It lives under logs and fallen palm fronds in rainforest and drier forests, and can frequently be found in suburban gardens. It is found from Taree in New South Wales northwards to about Rockhampton, Queensland.
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Giant Gem Chiton, Acanthopleura gemmata. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Chitons
Summary
Chitons differ from other molluscs by having an 8-plated shell, which is held together by a tough band of tissues known as the girdle. The various types of chitons are distinguished by colour and structural differences in the plates and girdle
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Black-striped Triton, Septa hepatica. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Marine snails
Summary
Marine snails form the dominant component of molluscan faunas throughout the world’s oceans. Although families such as the cowries, cone snails and murex snails may be the best known due to their attractive shells and often bright colours, large numbers of ecologically important species are either drab, or small to microscopic in size.
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Orchid Snail, Zonitoides arboreus. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Orchid Snail
Summary
The Orchid Snail is often cursed by greenhouse gardeners and orchid growers. This miniature invader, originally from North America only reaches about 6 mm in diameter. It ranges from southern Victoria to north-eastern Queensland.
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Cream Wafer Tellin, *Tonganaella perna*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Cream Wafer Tellin
Summary
The Cream Wafer Tellin lives deeply burrowed in shallow subtidal sandy habitats. Found in tropical and subtropical Australia.
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Glossy Turban Carnivorous Snail, Terrycarlessia turbinata. © Queensland Museum, John Stanisic.
Glossy Turban Carnivorous Snail
Summary
The Glossy Turban Carnivorous Snail belongs to a family (Rhytididae) whose members prey on invertebrates such as earthworms and also on other snails. It ranges from the Barrington Tops in New South Wales to about Nambour in south-eastern Queensland.
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Mottled Treesnail, Papuexul bidwilli. © Queensland Museum.
Land Snails, Slugs and Freshwater Snails
Summary
The terrestrial environment is home to a vast array of snails and slugs. Many native land snails and slugs live in the moist layers of litter on the forest floor and other moist habitats such as rotting logs, under rocks or beneath debris. In eastern Australia, they are particularly diverse in rainforest areas. The freshwater environment also hosts a variety of snails.
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Goose Barnacle, *Lepas anserifera*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Goose Barnacle
Summary
The Goose Barnacle is found in the open sea, where it attaches to floating logs, planks and other flotsam. It is common in tropical Australia.
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Royal Barnacle, Austromegabalanus nigrescens. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Royal Barnacle
Summary
The Royal Barnacle is common on rocks on exposed rocky headlands, lower tidal zone down to about 9 m depth. It occurs from southern Australia north to Queensland.
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