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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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Yellow-striped Hermit The Yellow-striped Hermit is common in a variety of habitats, from exposed rocky headlands, to reefs and mangroves, intertidal and shallow subtidal zones. Occurs in northern Australia from Shark Bay, WA to Port Hacking, NSW.
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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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Ram’s Horn Squid or Tail-light Squid The Ram’s Horn Squid is a rarely seen deep-water species that has a light emitting organ at the tail-end of its body. The internal spirally-coiled shell, is composed of numerous gas-filled chambers that give the squid buoyancy. Tail-light Squids are cosmopolitan, occurring in all oceans.
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Smooth-handed Ghost Crab The Smooth-handed Ghost Crab can be found on top of frontal dunes to about 200 m inland. It is often seen scurrying about beach campsites. It occurs in northern Australia from Kimberley, WA, to northern NSW.
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Orange Threadtail The Orange Threadtail is a medium-sized, black and orange damselfly that mainly inhabits flowing waters, such as streams and rivers.
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Springs Flatwing The Springs Flatwing is a moderately large damselfly that inhabits small streams and boggy seepages in wet forest, particularly rainforest. The adults are black with metallic green iridescence with yellow to orange-yellow markings on the thorax.
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Common Archtail The Common Archtail is a small, black and yellow dragonfly that inhabits streams and rivers. The adults perch with the abdomen held in a distinctive curved arch.
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Flame Flatwing The Flame Flatwing is a large, orange and black damselfly that inhabits creeks, streams, and boggy pools in rainforest and other wet forests. It is very similar to the Golden Flatwing but the distributions of the two species do not overlap.
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Pale Banded Snail 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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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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Southern Pinfly The Southern Pinfly is a medium-sized damselfly that inhabits streams and creeks running through wetter forest. Adults are greenish black with yellow to greenish-yellow markings. As the males age, they develop a pale powdery coating on the tip of the abdomen.
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Red-tipped Shadefly The Red-tipped Shadefly is a medium-sized damselfly that inhabits dams, ponds, riverine lagoons and the edges of streams and rivers. Adults are very variable in appearance depending on their age, but mature males are black and green with a reddish tip to the abdomen.
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Red Swampdragon The Red Swampdragon is a medium-sized dragonfly that inhabits swamps, and shaded dams and pools along streams and watercourses. Mature males have yellow thorax with dark markings and a thin red abdomen with a black tip.
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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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Northern Riverdamsel The Northern Riverdamsel is a medium-sized damselfly that inhabits lakes, riverine pools and sluggish rivers and streams. Mature males have a blue and black head and thorax and black abdomen with a blue tip. This species is very similar to the Blue Riverdamsel.
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