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Shiny Bait Crab, *Davusia glabra*. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Shiny Bait Crab
Summary
The Shiny Bait Crab is found in crevices and pools on exposed rocky shores in eastern Qld. It is common at Point Lookout, on North Stradbroke Island.
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Bold-spotted Anemone Shrimp, *Thor amboinensis*. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Bold-spotted Anemone Shrimp
Summary
The Bold-spotted Anemone Shrimp has, as its name suggests, bold patterning. It grows up to 20 mm in length. It occurs on reefs and may be found on Haddon’s Anemone in channels and pools at Dunwich, North Stradbroke Island. Northern Australia; Indo-Pacific region.
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Cleft-fronted Bait Crab, *Guinusia dentipes*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Cleft-fronted Bait Crab
Summary
The Cleft-fronted Bait Crab has short hairs on its body and legs, and can reach 70 mm in carapace width. It occurs in eastern Qld; also subtropical and tropical western and eastern Pacific (north to Japan and south-east to Easter Island).
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Ring-tailed Gecko, Cyrtodactylus tuberculatus. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Cooktown Ring-tailed Gecko
Summary
The Cooktown Ring-tailed Gecko is found from Cape Melville to Mt Leswell and also on Stanley Island in the Flinders group, north-eastern Queensland. It is primarily an arthropod feeder but will also take small vertebrates (geckos and frogs).
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Geography Cone, Conus geographus. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Geography Cone
Summary
The Geography Cone is a large species of cone snail with the shell reaching up to about 120 mm long. Geography Cones live on sand and rubble, under rocks and coral in the intertidal and subtidal zones. They are found from north WA to southern Queensland, and are widely distributed throughout the Indo-West Pacific.
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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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Common Violet Snail, *Janthina janthina*. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Common Violet Snail
Summary
The Common Violet Snail is a thin-shelled marine snail that lives out its entire life cycle floating on the surface of the ocean, but often seen washed up on beaches after strong winds. It is found worldwide including both tropical and temperate Australia.
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Coastal Petaltail, *Petalura litorea*, male. © Chris Burwell.
Coastal Petaltail
Summary
The Coastal Petaltail is a very large, heavy-set, brown dragonfly with pale-yellowish markings that inhabits swamps and marshes in sandy wallum habitats.
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Giant Panda Snail, Hedleyella falconeri. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Giant Panda Snail
Summary
The Giant Panda Snail is Australia's largest land snail, the shell of which may reach 90 mm in height. This species is often encountered in the rainforests around Brisbane, particularly at night after rain when they are out feeding on fungi. Giant Panda Snails occur as far south as Barrington Tops in NSW.
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Brownwater Skimmer, *Orthetrum boumiera*, mature male. © Chris Burwell.
Brownwater Skimmer
Summary
The Brownwater Skimmer is a medium-sized dragonfly confined to lakes in coastal sand dunes. Young adults are yellow and black. Almost the entire body of mature males develops a pale bluish powdery coating.
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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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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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Wallum Darner, *Austroaeschna cooloola*, male. © Chris Burwell.
Wallum Darner
Summary
The Wallum Darner is a large, brown to black dragonfly with pale stripes and spots. It inhabits sandy streams running through heathland and littoral rainforest in coastal sand masses.
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Dune Ringtail, *Austrolestes minjerriba*, male. © Chris Burwell.
Dune Ringtail
Summary
The Dune Ringtail is a medium-sized damselfly that inhabits coastal, brownwater dune lakes and swamps. Mature adults are dark metallic green or bronze with blue markings. The last three segments of the adomen are dark-coloured for males.
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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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Shells of the Giant Triton, Charonia tritonis. © Queensland Museum, Peter Waddington.
Giant Triton
Summary
The Giant or Trumpet Triton is one of the largest snails, reaching a length of 50 cm. Several island cultures use the shells as ceremonial trumpets. This species occurs throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific.
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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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Sand Yabby, *Cherax robustus*. Courtesy of Rob McCormack.
Sand Yabby
Summary
The Sand Yabby is semi-aquatic and burrows around the perimeter of sand lakes or along small creeks. It is restricted to coastal south-eastern Queensland as far north as Fraser Island.
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Wallum Vicetail, *Hemigomphus cooloola*, male. © Chris Burwell.
Wallum Vicetail
Summary
The Wallum Vicetail is a medium-sized, black and yellow dragonfly that is restricted to freshwater habitats in coastal sand dunes, including streams and lakes.
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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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