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Land Snails, Slugs and Freshwater Snails
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The terrestrial environment is home to a vast array of snails and slugs. Many native land snails and slugs live in the moist layers of litter on the forest floor and other moist habitats such as rotting logs, under rocks or beneath debris. In eastern Australia, they are particularly diverse in rainforest areas. The freshwater environment also hosts a variety of snails.
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Fraser's Banded Snail
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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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Lamington Spiny Crayfish
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The Lamington Spiny Crayfish is restricted to streams bordered by rainforest, and sometimes wet eucalypt forest, at more than 300 m altitude. Inhabits mountains in a crescent from Mount Tamborine to Lamington Plateau, west along Macpherson Range, and north via Cunningham's Gap into the Mistake Mountains, Queensland.
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Orange Palmdart
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The Orange Palmdart is found in rainforest, suburban gardens and nurseries with palms. It is widespread across northern and eastern Australia. Caterpillars are pale green with banded heads. They feed on palms, sewing adjacent leaflets together to form feeding retreats. When the caterpillars pupate inside the same shelter they produce a whitish floury deposit.
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Eungella Leaf-tailed Gecko
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The Eungella Leaf-tailed Gecko is confined to the Clarke Range, west of Mackay, mid-eastern Queensland.
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McIlwraith Leaf-tailed Gecko
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The McIlwraith Leaf-tailed Gecko is restricted to higher elevations in the McIlwraith Range, north-eastern Queensland.
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Northern Leaf-tailed Gecko
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The Northern Leaf-tailed Gecko is found in the Wet Tropics rainforests of north-eastern Queensland.
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Mount Blackwood Leaf-tailed Gecko
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The Mount Blackwood Leaf-tailed Gecko is restricted to Mount Blackwood and Mount Jukes near Mackay, mid-eastern Queensland.
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Bulburin Leaf-tailed Gecko (Ringed Thin-tail Gecko)
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The Bulburin Leaf-tailed Gecko (Ringed Thin-tail Gecko) is largely restricted to Bulburin State Forest, south-eastern Queensland.
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Koumala Leaf-tailed Gecko
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The Koumala Leaf-tailed Gecko is known from only two localities near Koumala in mid-eastern Queensland.
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Common Violet Snail
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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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Oakview Leaf-tailed Gecko
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The Oakview Leaf-tailed Gecko if found in Oakview National Park, via Kilkivan, South east Queensland.
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Fine-speckled Semi-slug
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The Fine-speckled Semi-slug has an attractive, medium-sized, ear-shaped shell with a silky, amber-green appearance. It lives under logs and fallen palm fronds in rainforest and drier forests, and can frequently be found in suburban gardens. It is found from Taree in New South Wales northwards to about Rockhampton, Queensland.
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Border Ranges Leaf-tailed Gecko
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The Border Ranges Leaf-tailed Gecko is found in the coastal ranges of south-eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales.
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Gulbaru Leaf-tailed Gecko
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The Gulbaru Leaf-tailed Gecko is found on the extreme southern end of the Paluma Range, 37 km west of Townsville.
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Giant Panda Snail
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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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Mackay Coast Leaf-tailed Gecko
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The Mackay Coast Leaf-tailed Gecko occurs in disjunct populations in the Proserpine/ Mackay area (Mount Ossa/Mount Charlton, Conway Range, Mount Dryander), mid-eastern Queensland.
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Central Queensland Leaf-tailed Gecko (Rough-throated Leaf-tailed Gecko)
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The Central Queensland Leaf-tailed Gecko (Rough-throated Leaf-tailed Gecko) is mainly known from dry areas in mid-eastern and south-central Queensland.
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Orchid Snail
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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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Richmond River Keeled Snail
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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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