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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 Bubbler, *Scopimera inflata*.© Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Sand Bubbler
Summary
The Sand Bubbler is unlike any other crab, using broad oval patches (tympana) on its legs to absorb oxygen from the air. It occurs on wave-exposed and estuarine sandy beaches in eastern Australia.
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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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Amethyst Olive, Oliva amethystina. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch
Amethyst Olive
Summary
The Amethyst Olive is one of the commonest and most widespread of the olive snail family (Olividae). This species is found buried in subtidal sandy areas especially associated with coral reefs and lagoons in subtropical and tropical Australia.
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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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Red-mouthed Stromb, Conomurex luhuanus. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Red-mouthed Stromb
Summary
The Red-mouthed Stromb is one of the most abundant and widespread of the Indo-Pacific stromb species. This species can be very common at certain muddy-sand, seagrass and lagoonal localities and is a prized food in many parts of Melanesia, and hence harvested commercially.
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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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Dune Glider, *Tramea eurybia*, male. © Chris Burwell.
Dune Glider
Summary
The Dune Glider is a moderately large dragonfly that is largely confined to dune lakes on the coast and sand islands. Adult males are red and have a dark-red patch at the base of each hindwing.
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Speckled Sand Crab, *Ashtoret lunaris*. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Speckled Sand Crab
Summary
The Speckled Sand Crab occurs on sandy substrates, from low tide mark to about 10 m depth. It is sometimes caught in bait nets. It is found in northern 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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Common Box Crab, *Calappa hepatica*. © Queensland Museum, Peter Davie.
Common Box Crab
Summary
The Common Box Crab is pale olive to olive-grey or olive-yellow, with flecking but not strong markings. It reaches about 50 mm in carapace width. It occurs in tropical and subtropical Australia; Indo-Pacific from Red Sea to Clipperton Is., east Pacific.
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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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Sand Crab or Blue Swimmer Crab, *Portunus armatus*. Courtesy of Ian Banks.
Sand Crab or Blue Swimmer Crab
Summary
The Sand Crab or Blue Swimmer Crab is a commercially important trawled species. It is common in shallow, sandy-muddy inshore waters and seagrass beds, and occurs Australia-wide.
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Gold-ring Cowrie, Monetaria annulus. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Gold-ring Cowrie
Summary
The Gold-ring Cowrie grows only to about 30 mm long, and is abundant on eel grass flats in sandy-mud or sand, from the intertidal to the shallow subtidal zones, and in pools on ocean reef platforms. It is common across northern Australia and throughout the Indian and West Pacific Oceans.
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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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Blue Slim, *Aciagrion fragile*, male. © Chris Burwell.
Blue Slim
Summary
The Blue Slim is a medium-sized damselfly that inhabits standing waters including ponds, dams and swamps. Males and females are blue and black with a long, slender abdomen.
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Pink-clawed Hermit, *Dardanus pedunculatus*. Courtesy of Ian Banks.
Pink-clawed Hermit
Summary
The Pink-clawed Hermit has short thick eyestalks with distinctive red and white banding. It is found on reefs and seagrass beds in Qld and NSW.
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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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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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