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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.
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Textile Cone The Textile Cone shell has an irregular shingle-like pattern. It feeds on other molluscs which it immobilises by injecting a powerful venom with a harpoon-like tooth. The species is found in tropical waters of the Indo-west Pacific.
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Shiny Bait Crab 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 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 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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Cooktown Ring-tailed Gecko 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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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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Coastal Petaltail 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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Gastropods Gastropods form the largest class of molluscs and include many well-known groups such as cowries, cone snails, tritons, periwinkles and whelks. To date approximately 950 species of gastropods have been recorded from the Bay.
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Brownwater Skimmer 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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Marine snails Marine snails form the dominant component of molluscan faunas throughout the world’s oceans. Although families such as the cowries, cone snails and murex snails may be the best known due to their attractive shells and often bright colours, large numbers of ecologically important species are either drab, or small to microscopic in size.
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Wallum Darner 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 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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Giant Triton 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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Orange-spot Smashing Mantis Shrimp The Orange-spot Smashing Mantis Shrimp lives in crevices and holes in dead and living coral clumps on reefs and in mussel clumps in shallow water. It is found in northern Australia.
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Northern Billabongfly The Northern Billabongfly is a small damselfly that inhabits a range of standing and flowing waters such as streams, rivers, lagoons and lakes, including dune lakes. Mature males are black with blue and greenish markings, including a blue tip to the abdomen. This species closely resembles the Eastern Billlabongfly.
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Green Turtle The Green Turtle is a large turtle with a bullet-shaped head and four large scales down either side of the shell. It is found in coastal, tropical and subtropical waters worldwide.
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