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Girdled Periwinkle, Littoraria filosa. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Girdled Periwinkle
Summary
The Girdled Periwinkle is striking, varying from yellow to brown, orange or pink. At low tide these molluscs 'glue' their shells to the bark or leaves of mangrove trees to stop themselves from drying out. This species is distributed from Botany Bay, New South Wales, around northern Australia to Exmouth Gulf, WA.
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Brown Tiger Prawn, *Penaeus esculentus*. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Brown Tiger Prawn
Summary
The Brown Tiger Prawn is a large, banded prawn growing to 235 mm in length. It occurs on mud or sandy mud, and is found in northern Australia from Shark Bay, WA, to central NSW.
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Moreton Bay Bug, *Thenus parindicus*. © Queensland Museum.
Moreton Bay Bug
Summary
The Moreton Bay Bug (also called Flathead Lobster or Shovel-nosed Lobster) is found over muddy-sand substrates in inshore waters to about 60 m depth. Northern Australia.
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Three-spotted Swimmer Crab, *Portunus sanguinolentus*. © Queensland Museum, Peter Davie.
Three-spotted Swimmer Crab
Summary
The Three-spotted Swimmer Crab is common, trawled in Moreton Bay and adjacent coastal waters. Often swims at surface at night.
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Red Mud Lobster, *Neaxius glyptocercus*. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Red Mud Lobster
Summary
The Red Mud Lobster is a stout, lobster-like crustacean with strong claws. It is very common in Moreton Bay, and is found in northern and eastern Australia.
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Red and White-spotted Reef Crab, *Lophozozymus erinnyes*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Red and White-spotted Reef Crab
Summary
The Red and White-spotted Reef Crab hides in cavities in dead coral or mussel clumps, intertidal zone down to about 30 m depth. Known only from northern Australia, south to Moreton Bay.
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Orange-clawed Fiddler Crab, *Tubuca coarctata*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Orange-clawed Fiddler Crab
Summary
The Orange-clawed Fiddler Crab is common on muddy upper shoulders of creeks and riverbanks in eastern Australia from Cape York to Moreton Bay.
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Mount Elliot Leaf-tailed Gecko, Phyllurus amnicola.© Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Mount Elliot Leaf-tailed Gecko
Summary
The Mount Elliot Leaf-tailed Gecko is only found on Mount Elliot, Bowling Green Bay NP (30 km SE of Townsville, north-eastern Queensland).
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Striped-leg Hermit Crab, *Clibanarius taeniatus*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Yellow-striped Hermit
Summary
The Yellow-striped Hermit is common in a variety of habitats, from exposed rocky headlands, to reefs and mangroves, intertidal and shallow subtidal zones. Occurs in northern Australia from Shark Bay, WA to Port Hacking, NSW.
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Banana Prawn, *Penaeus merguiensis*. Courtesy of Grant's Guide to Fishes.
Banana Prawn
Summary
The Banana Prawn grows to 240 mm in length. It is widespread, found in northern Australia from Shark Bay, WA, to northern NSW; also from the Red Sea into Asia.
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Giant Sentinel Crab, *Venitus latreillei*. Courtesy of Andrew Elliot.
Giant Sentinel Crab
Summary
The Giant Sentinel Crab has a large carapace with a strongly granular surface. It burrows on open mudflats in very soft mud from northern Australia south to Moreton Bay.
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Smooth Fan Lobster, *Ibacus brucei*. Courtesy of G. Millen, Australian Museum.
Smooth Fan Lobster
Summary
The Smooth Fan Lobster is found on soft stony substrates, 90–180 m depth, in Southern Qld, and northern NSW.
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Stalk-eyed Swimmer Crab, *Podophthalmus vigil*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Stalk-eyed Swimmer Crab
Summary
The Stalk-eyed Swimmer Crab occurs over sandy-mud and weed substrates, occasionally taken in pots and bait nets, shallow subtidal zone to 20 m depth. It is found in Northern Australia from Exmouth Gulf, WA, to Moreton Bay.
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Two-toned Fiddler Crab, *Gelasimus vomeris*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Two-toned Fiddler Crab
Summary
The Two-toned Fiddler Crab is common. It is found on unshaded sandy mud along lower tide levels of open bays and creeks, and isolated sand or mud banks. Occurs in northern Australia from Darwin, NT to Trial Bay, NSW.
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Red Reef Lobster, *Enoplometopus occidentalis*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Spiny Lobsters & Slipper Lobsters
Summary
Despite their name, the Australian spiny lobsters and slipper lobsters lack the large, powerful claws that are the hallmark of the marine 'clawed' lobsters from the northern hemisphere. The two most common families are the Palinuridae (spiny lobsters) and the Scyllaridae (slipper lobsters). Slipper lobsters such as the Moreton Bay Bug and the Smooth Fan Lobster are both commercially fished, as is the Ornate Spiny Lobster, although the latter is collected mostly by hand.
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Bullock's Nudibranch, *Hypselodoris bullockii*.© Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Bullock's Nudibranch
Summary
Bullock’s Nudibranch is a shallow water sea slug often seen by divers on coral reefs. It feeds on sponges and occurs in tropical Australia as far south as Moreton Bay, Queensland.
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Horn-eyed Ghost Crab, *Ocypode ceratophthalmus*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Horn-eyed Ghost Crab
Summary
The Horn-eyed Ghost Crab is common on the open beach below frontal dunes in the intertidal zone. Most active at night. It is found in northern Australia from Shark Bay, WA, to northern NSW.
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Giant Clam, Tridacna maxima. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Bivalves
Summary
Bivalves are molluscs that have a shell composed of two valves attached by a skin-like ligament and usually interlocking (hinge) teeth. The class includes many commercially significant species and numerous ecologically dominant groups. About 350 species have been recorded from Moreton Bay.
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Sand-dusted Cone, Conus arenatus. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Gastropods
Summary
Gastropods form the largest class of molluscs and include many well-known groups such as cowries, cone snails, tritons, periwinkles and whelks. To date approximately 950 species of gastropods have been recorded from the Bay.
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Giant Whelk, Syrinx aruana. © Queensland Museum, Peter Waddington
Giant Whelk or Australian False Trumpet
Summary
The Giant Whelk is the world’s largest snail. This enormous marine gastropod can grow to a shell length of 70 cm. They are predatory snails and feed on large tube-dwelling polychaete worms. It occurs from the intertidal zone down to 50 metres water depth and has a range across the northern half of the Australian coastline extending into southern New Guinea and Indonesia.
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