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Tusk shells, Scaphopoda. © Queensland Museum, John Healy.
Tusk Shells
Summary
Scaphopods - popularly known as tusk shells - form a distinctive class of marine molluscs characterised among other things by their curved, open-ended shells. Tusk shells are not often seen living, and several inhabit water as deep as 2000 metres. Australia has approximately 106 species of scaphopod known to date.
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Toenail Egg-cowrie, Calpurnus verrucosus. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Toenail Egg-cowrie
Summary
The Toenail Egg-cowrie is common in intertidal and shallow subtidal areas, grows to about 35 mm long, and has a solid, oval and broad shell. It is found in Queensland and New South Wales coasts.
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Variable Mitre, Mitra variabilis. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Variable Mitre
Summary
The Variable Mitre is one of the commonest mitre snails (family Mitridae) from the Indo-Pacific region and often encountered both intertidally and subtidally, normally hiding under large rocks or dead coral slabs. It is found in subtropical and tropical Australia.
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Smooth Tusk shell, Laevidentalium lubricatum. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Smooth Tusk Shell
Summary
The Smooth Tusk Shell is one of the larger species of scaphopod. Like other tusk shells, it lives embedded in sand and the living animal is rarely seen. It is found Australia-wide.
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European Garden Snail, Cornu aspersum. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
European Garden Snail
Summary
The European Garden Snail is a very common garden and agricultural pest originally from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, but is now a widespread invader throughout the world. Occurs throughout most of southern and eastern Australia and northwards to the Atherton Tablelands in north-eastern Queensland.
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Fox Dove Snail, Pardalinops testudinaria. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Fox Dove Snail
Summary
The Fox Dove Snail is well known for its bold and often complex shell colouration. The animals are mostly carnivorous, but some species have secondarily become herbivorous. It is found in subtropical and tropical Australia.
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Gaping Venus Clam, Marcia hiantina. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Gaping Venus Clam
Summary
The Gaping Venus Clam is one of the commoner intertidal to shallow subtidal bivalves in southern Queensland. They live buried in sand within a few centimetres of the surface, with only the tips of their siphons projecting.They are found in subtropical and tropical Australia.
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Hairy Mussel, Trichomya hirsuta. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Hairy Mussel
Summary
The Hairy Mussel occurs abundantly along the eastern and southern coasts of Australia as far south as Tasmania, particularly in estuarine localities. Shells of living animals are covered in short bristles. They occur in eastern and southern Australia.
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Richmond River Keeled Snail, *Thersites richmondiana*. © Queensland Museum.
Richmond River Keeled Snail
Summary
The Richmond River Keeled Snail has an elevated spire and a strikingly-keeled shape. It occurs in the forests of Tamborine Mountain and Lamington National Park near Brisbane.
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Mud Ark, Anadara trapezia. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Mud Ark
Summary
The Mud Ark is one of the most abundant bivalve molluscs on the mud- and sand-flats of eastern and southern Australia. They are common components of aboriginal shell middens.
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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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Penguin Wing Oyster, Pteria penguin. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Penguin Wing Oyster
Summary
The Penguin Wing Oyster is the largest member of its genus, growing to over 200 mm and characterised by a black shell exterior and a very long extension of the hinge. The Penguin Wing Oyster lives in shallow water to depths of up to 20 m. It is found in subtropical and tropical Australia.
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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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Scaly Scallop, Scaeochlamys livida. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Scaly Scallop
Summary
The Scaly Scallop, as its common name implies, is sculptured with numerous, short vertical scales. The species grows to 60-70 mm and is fished commercially in southern Australian states. It is widespread along the Australian coast.
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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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Strawberry Cockle, Fragum unedo. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Strawberry Cockle
Summary
The Strawberry Cockle is creamy white with strawberry-red scales and has a solid, strongly ribbed shell. Like many other bivalves, it feeds by using a siphon to draw in water and pass it to the gills. Strawberry Cockles are common in the intertidal and shallow subtidal zones throughout the Indo-West Pacific.
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Sydney Rock Oyster, Saccostrea glomerata. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Sydney Rock Oyster
Summary
The Sydney Rock Oyster is the most ecologically and commercially important species of the oyster family from Australian waters. It is found along the east coast of Australia, and New Zealand.
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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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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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White Hammer Oyster, Malleus albus. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
White Hammer Oyster
Summary
The White Hammer Oyster is one of the most unusual types of marine bivalve molluscs and easily recognised by its greatly elongate hinge extensions (recalling a hammer shape) and somewhat corrugated valves. It is found in subtropical and tropical Australia.
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