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Pale Banded Snail, *Sphaerospira mattea*. © Queensland Museum.
Pale Banded Snail
Summary
The Pale Banded Snail has, as the common name suggests, a pale, yellowish shell with many strong, dark brown spiral bands. It also has a dark brown patch behind the outer lip and on the umbilical region on the base of the shell. It ranges from about the Tweed river region in northern New South Wales northwards to the Broadsound Range, north-west of Rockhampton, and inland to the Carnarvon area, Queensland.
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Asian Tramp Snails, Bradybaena similaris. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Asian Tramp Snail
Summary
The Asian Tramp Snail is a serious vine and market garden pest, that has become well-established in eastern Australia from Melbourne, Victoria, and around Bega on the south coast of New South Wales northwards to the Wet Tropics region of north-eastern Queensland.
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Jade Hunter, *Austrogomphus ochraceus*, male. © Chris Burwell.
Jade Hunter
Summary
The Jade Hunter is a medium-sized, black and yellow dragonfly that inhabits streams and rivers in a variety of habitats from rainforest to coastal heathland.
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Sigma Darner, *Austroaeschna sigma*, male. © Chris Burwell.
Sigma Darner
Summary
The Sigma Darner is a large, brown to dark brown dragonfly with pale stripes and spots. It inhabits streams in a variety of forest types, ranging from rainforest to drier open forest.
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Lined Nerita, Nerita balteata. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Lined Nerite
Summary
The Lined Nerite is characterised by its finely grooved shell. This species of Nerite snail lives in association with mangrove trees. It is found in Tropical Australia.
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Common Green Treefrog, a common inhabitant of suburban down-pipes.
Common Green Treefrog
Summary
The Common Green Treefrog is a large species. It is bright to dull green with a rounded head. It is widespread through northern and eastern Australia.
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Red-mouthed Banded Whelk, Engina zonalis. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Red-mouthed Banded Whelk
Summary
The Red-mouthed Banded Whelk is a small species of predatory snail that may be found under large rocks and dead coral slabs from intertidal and shallow subtidal habitats to 15 m depth. It occurs in subtropical and tropical Australia.
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European Garden Snail, Cornu aspersum. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
European Garden Snail
Summary
The European Garden Snail is a very common garden and agricultural pest originally from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, but is now a widespread invader throughout the world. Occurs throughout most of southern and eastern Australia and northwards to the Atherton Tablelands in north-eastern Queensland.
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Spike-top apple snail, Pomacea diffusa. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Spike-top Apple Snail
Summary
Apple Snails are freshwater snails commonly sold in the aquarium trade for the purpose of keeping aquarium glass clean of algae. However, if released, these snails, native to South America, are a potentially serious biological threat to the waterways of Australia.
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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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Rose Petal Bubble Snail, Hydatina physis. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Rose Petal Bubble Snail
Summary
The Rose Petal Bubble Snail is carnivorous and feeds on certain marine polychaete (bristle) worms. It is most commonly encountered in shallow water bays during its breeding season (summer to early autumn) when specimens will lay strings of white, spaghetti-like ropes of eggs. It is found almost Australia-wide.
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Northern Evening Darner, *Telephlebia cyclops*, female. © Chris Burwell.
Northern Evening Darner
Summary
The Northern Evening Darner is a large, brownish dragonfly with dark markings along the leading edges of the wings. It inhabits streams and creeks in wetter forests and the adults are crespuscular.
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Banded Helmet, Phalium bandatum. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Banded Helmet
Summary
The Banded Helmet is one of the more common species of the Helmet snail family (Cassidae) and is most often seen washed up as dead shells or shell pieces. It is found 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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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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Pygmy Wisp, *Agriocnemis pygmaea*, male. © Chris Burwell.
Pygmy Wisp
Summary
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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Giant Whelk, Syrinx aruana. © Queensland Museum, Peter Waddington
Giant Whelk or Australian False Trumpet
Summary
The Giant Whelk is the world’s largest snail. This enormous marine gastropod can grow to a shell length of 70 cm. They are predatory snails and feed on large tube-dwelling polychaete worms. It occurs from the intertidal zone down to 50 metres water depth and has a range across the northern half of the Australian coastline extending into southern New Guinea and Indonesia.
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Red-rumped Wisp, *Agriocnemis rubricauda*, female. © Chris Burwell.
Red-rumped Wisp
Summary
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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Eastern Brown Snake, Pseudonaja textilis, Adult. © Steve Wilson.
Eastern Brown Snake
Summary
The Eastern Brown Snake may be any shade of brown but can also be grey or black. Some individuals are banded. The belly is typically cream with pink or orange spots. It is found over most of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
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Swift-footed Hermit, *Dardanus lagopodes*. © Queensland Museum, Neville Coleman.
Hermit Crabs, Squat Lobsters & allies
Summary
This diverse group of crustaceans is scientifically known as the Anomura. It includes the hermit crabs (superfamily Paguroidea), squat lobsters (superfamilies Galatheoidea and Chirostyloidea) and porcelain crabs (family Porcellanidae), amongst other less familiar anomuran groups. Anomurans are found in a wide variety of habitats, from the shoreline to the deep sea.
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