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Name	Summary	Subject categories
Leaden Sand Snail	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.	Molluscs Gastropods Marine snails
Sand Bubbler	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.	Crustaceans
Sand Yabby	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.	Crustaceans
Geography Cone	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.	Molluscs Gastropods Marine snails
Amethyst Olive	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.	Molluscs Gastropods Marine snails
Red-mouthed Stromb	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.	Molluscs Gastropods Marine snails
Gaping Venus Clam	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.	Molluscs Bivalves
Dune Glider	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.	Insects Dragonflies
Speckled Sand Crab	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.	Crustaceans
Smooth Tusk Shell	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.	Molluscs Tusk Shells
Common Box Crab	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.	Crustaceans
Two-toned Fiddler Crab	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.	Crustaceans
Sand Crab or Blue Swimmer Crab	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.	Crustaceans
Gold-ring Cowrie	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.	Molluscs Gastropods Marine snails
Mud Ark	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.	Molluscs Bivalves
Common Violet Snail	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.	Molluscs Gastropods Marine snails
Blue Slim	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.	Insects Damselflies
Giant Panda Snail	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.	Molluscs Gastropods Land snails
Wallum Vicetail	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.	Insects Dragonflies
Zebra Volute	The Zebra Volute lives in shallow, usually subtidal sand banks where it seeks out other snails and clams for food. The striped colour pattern on the shell (length to 50mm) gives the species its common name, but there are several other species of Australian volute which likewise have striped shells. It is found from Queensland to New South Wales only.	Molluscs Gastropods Marine snails

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