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Lord Valentia's Cowrie Lord Valentia's Cowrie is even rarer than the Golden Cowrie and often not seen outside of specialist collections. It is found from the Philippines to Australia.
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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.
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Toenail Egg-cowrie 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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Brown Tiger Prawn 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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Pygmy Wisp 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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Red-rumped Wisp The Red-rumped Wisp is a tiny damselfly that inhabits a variety of standing water habitats, including small, well-vegetated ponds, dams and swamps. It is very similar to the Pgymy Wisp but males have more of the tip of the abdomen reddish. However, only female Red-rumped Wisps are known from south-east Queensland.
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