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Ringed Thin-tail Gecko, Phyllurus caudiannulatus. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Bulburin Leaf-tailed Gecko (Ringed Thin-tail Gecko)
Summary
The Bulburin Leaf-tailed Gecko (Ringed Thin-tail Gecko) is largely restricted to Bulburin State Forest, south-eastern Queensland.
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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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Inland Freshwater Crab, *Austrothelphusa transversa*. © Queensland Museum.
Inland Freshwater Crab
Summary
The Inland Freshwater Crab is common throughout the semi-desert central and northern parts of Australia extending south into the upper reaches of the Darling River System.
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Rough-throated Leaf-tail Gecko, Saltuarius salebrosus. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Central Queensland Leaf-tailed Gecko (Rough-throated Leaf-tailed Gecko)
Summary
The Central Queensland Leaf-tailed Gecko (Rough-throated Leaf-tailed Gecko) is mainly known from dry areas in mid-eastern and south-central Queensland.
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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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Broad-tailed Gecko, Phyllurus platurus.© Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Sydney Leaf-tailed Gecko (Broad-tailed Gecko)
Summary
The Sydney Leaf-tailed Gecko (Broad-tailed Gecko) is confined to the Sydney Sandstones, New South Wales.
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Southern Leaf-tailed Gecko, Saltuarius swaini. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Border Ranges Leaf-tailed Gecko
Summary
The Border Ranges Leaf-tailed Gecko is found in the coastal ranges of south-eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales.
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Border Leaftail Gecko, Saltuarius wyberba. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Granite Leaf-tailed Gecko
Summary
The Granite Leaf-tailed Gecko is found in South-eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales, extending from the Warwick area south to the Mann River Nature Reserve.
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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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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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Pygmy Wisp, *Agriocnemis pygmaea*, male. © Chris Burwell.
Pygmy Wisp
Summary
The Pygmy Wisp is a tiny damselfly that inhabits ponds, swamps and fringes of dams and lakes with plentiful aquatic vegetation. Mature males are dark brown or black with greenish markings and a reddish tip to the abdomen. Young females are mostly red and become black and green as they age.
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The Graceful Treefrog, Litoria gracilenta. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Graceful Treefrog
Summary
The Graceful Treefrog is bright green with yellow slides, belly and feet. It is found coastally from Cape York, Queensland, to the Gosford area of New South Wales.
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Spotted Velvet Gecko, Oedura tryoni. © Queensland Museum, Steve Wilson.
Spotted Velvet Gecko
Summary
The Spotted Velvet Gecko is uncommon in suburban Brisbane; abundant in surrounding bush-land. Coast and ranges from mid-eastern Queensland to north-eastern New South Wales.
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Female *Cyrtophora moluccensis* hanging upside-down in its tent-web. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Common Garden Spiders
Summary
Spiders are ubiquitous in gardens, houses and urban environments throughout Queensland, and a wide variety of species can easily be found, especially in the eastern tropics and subtropics. The species accounts below highlight some of the more frequently encountered species in Queensland backyards.
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The Tusked Frog
Tusked Frog
Summary
The Tusked Frog is medium sized. It is back is brown with dark blotches. It is found in south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales.
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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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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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Fraser's Banded Snail, Sphaerospira fraseri. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Fraser's Banded Snail
Summary
Fraser's Banded Snail is a native snail species that is quite large, its shell reaching a diameter of up to 56 mm. The shell ranges from a tawny yellow to dark brown base-colour with many black spiral bands and a dark area behind the outer lip. It occurs from around the Clarence River region in northern New South Wales northwards to about Gympie in south-eastern Queensland.
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Pale Banded Snail, *Sphaerospira mattea*. © Queensland Museum.
Pale Banded Snail
Summary
The Pale Banded Snail has, as the common name suggests, a pale, yellowish shell with many strong, dark brown spiral bands. It also has a dark brown patch behind the outer lip and on the umbilical region on the base of the shell. It ranges from about the Tweed river region in northern New South Wales northwards to the Broadsound Range, north-west of Rockhampton, and inland to the Carnarvon area, Queensland.
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Asian Tramp Snails, Bradybaena similaris. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Asian Tramp Snail
Summary
The Asian Tramp Snail is a serious vine and market garden pest, that has become well-established in eastern Australia from Melbourne, Victoria, and around Bega on the south coast of New South Wales northwards to the Wet Tropics region of north-eastern Queensland.
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