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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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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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Leaden Sand Snail The Leaden Sand Snail is one of the largest, most common sand snails found on sand-and mud-flats along the eastern and southern coasts of Australia. It produces large crescent-shaped jelly-like egg masses.
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Giant Whelk or Australian False Trumpet 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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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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Tent-Web Spiders Tent-Web Spiders (genus Cyrtophora) are found throughout eastern and tropical northern Australia, with three species often found in urban environments. The largest and most commonly encountered species, C. moluccensis, is abundant in backyards in eastern Queensland, including around Brisbane.
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Purple-edged Nudibranch The Purple-edged Nudibranch is an attractive, moderately large (50-120 mm) and often-encountered shallow water sea slug. It occurs in subtropical and tropical Australia
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Bullock's Nudibranch Bullock’s Nudibranch is a shallow water sea slug often seen by divers on coral reefs. It feeds on sponges and occurs in tropical Australia as far south as Moreton Bay, Queensland.
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Gold-spotted Nudibranch The Gold-spotted Nudibranch has a mosaic of large and small golden patches, each outlined in orange, and the body itself is smooth to the touch. It occurs in subtropical and tropical Australia.
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Graceful Treefrog The Graceful Treefrog is bright green with yellow slides, belly and feet. It is found coastally from Cape York, Queensland, to the Gosford area of New South Wales.
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Funeral Pyre Nudibranch The Funeral Pyre Nudibranch is easily identified by its distinctive white body colour decorated with large black circles composed of numerous raised papillae. It feeds on sponges and occurs in subtropical and tropical Australia.
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Common Green Treefrog 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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Northern Green Jumping Spider The Northern Green Jumping Spider (Mopsus mormon) is one of Australia’s largest jumping spiders, and a common resident of backyards in tropical climates, including around Brisbane. The spiders are green throughout their lives, but adult males and females exhibit strong sexual dimorphism, with males characterised by a pronounced fringe of white ‘whiskers’.
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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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Zebra Volute The Zebra Volute lives in shallow, usually subtidal sand banks where it seeks out other snails and clams for food. The striped colour pattern on the shell (length to 50mm) gives the species its common name, but there are several other species of Australian volute which likewise have striped shells. It is found from Queensland to New South Wales only.
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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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Golden Orb-Weaving Spiders The three species of Golden Orb-Weaving Spiders found in Queensland (in the genera Trichonephila and Nephila) are familiar denizens of urban environments throughout the state. The most commonly encountered species, Trichonephila plumipes, is abundant in backyards in eastern Queensland, including around Brisbane.
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