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Hairy Mussel

Summary

The Hairy Mussel occurs abundantly along the eastern and southern coasts of Australia as far south as Tasmania, particularly in estuarine localities. Shells of living animals are covered in short bristles. They occur in eastern and southern Australia.
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Black-striped Triton, Septa hepatica. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.

Marine snails

Summary

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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Swamp Crayfish

Summary

The Swamp Crayfish is one of the world's smallest crayfish, being fully grown at 25 mm. Originally recorded from Bulimba Creek, Mt Gravatt, but rarely found in the Brisbane city area since 1951.
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Lamington Spiny Crayfish, *Euastacus sulcatus*. © Queensland Museum, Neville Coleman.

Common Freshwater & Terrestrial Crustaceans of Queensland

Summary

Queensland has a diverse range of freshwater and terrestrial environments, from outback deserts to tropical rainforests. Although crustaceans are primarily a marine group, there are many species of freshwater crayfish and crabs. Desert specialists, such as the remarkable Shield Shrimp, have eggs that can survive many years in the parched desert clay before hatching in their thousands when the rains finally come.
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Tusk Shells

Summary

Scaphopods - popularly known as tusk shells - form a distinctive class of marine molluscs characterised among other things by their curved, open-ended shells. Tusk shells are not often seen living, and several inhabit water as deep as 2000 metres. Australia has approximately 106 species of scaphopod known to date.
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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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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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Australian Pygmyfly

Summary

The Australian Pygmyfly is a very small dragonfly that inhabits swamps, boggy seepages and shallow ponds and dams with plentiful aquatic plants. Mature males have the thorax and base of the abdomen covered in a bluish powdery coating with the tip of the abdomen red.
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Blue Slim

Summary

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.
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Pygmy Percher

Summary

The Pygmy Percher is a very small dragonfly that inhabits a range of standing and flowing waters. Mature adults are mostly red with dark markings on the abdomen.
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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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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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Mottled Treesnail, Papuexul bidwilli. © Queensland Museum.

Land Snails, Slugs and Freshwater Snails

Summary

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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Unicorn Darner

Summary

The Unicorn Darner is a large, brown to black 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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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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