Species list by common name - alphabetical, letter d

According to available records, the following species occur in Tasmanian waters:

dairy turrid (Lucerapex casearia)

Dannevig’s false-creeper (Tubercliopsis dannevigi)

dark brown chiton (Leptochiton badius)

dark brown false rice-shell (Badepigrus badius)

dark brown mitre (Mitra badia)

dark cap-shell (Sirius badius)

dark eaton-shell (Eatoniella atrella)

dark-purple eaton-shell (Eatoniella atropurpurea)

daughter sea-slug (Okenia mija)

dawn thickshell-clam (Talabrica aurora)

decayed chiton (Ischnochiton cariosus)

deceptive false-turrid (Marita fallaciosa)

decorated screw-shell (Colpospira decoramen)

deepwater chiton (Loricella profundior)

deepwater top-shell (Vaceuchelus profundior)

delicate air-breather (Marinula xanthostoma)

delicate false-cockle (Cyclocardia delicatum)

delicate false-turrid (Guraleus delicatulus)

delicate limpet (Eoacmaea calamus)

delicate scallop (Zygochlamys delicatula)

delicate wentletrap (Epitonium tenellum)

dendritic sea-slug (Placida dendritica)

densely-ribbed false-turrid (Etrema denseplicata)

denuded murex (Chicoreus denudatus)

depressed pyramid-shell (Pseudoskenella depressa)

dermestoid dove-shell (Pseudamycla dermestoidea)

Desales’ false-turrid (Asperdaphne desalesii)

Deshayes’ myllita (Myllita deshayesi)

Desmarest’s sea-elephant (Firoloida desmaresti)

devoted bonnet-limpet (Malluvium devotus)

diana dosinia (Dosinia diana)

diaphorous chiton (Rhyssoplax diaphora)

differing rice-shell (Pusillina discrepans)

diminutive top-shell (Herpetopoma pumilio )

dirty dog-cockle (Tucetona sordida)

dirty sand-snail (Polinices sordida)

disimilar epigrus (Epigrus dissimilis)

disjunct sinistral-creeper (Isotriphora disjuncta)

distorted rock-whelk (Sassia subdistorta)

divergent crypt-dweller (Petricola divergens)

Dohrn’s nut-shell (Nuculana dohrni)

doubled-up margin-shell (Protoginella geminata)

double-lined false-turrid (Heterocithara bilineata)

double-rayed sunset-shell (Soletellina biradiata)

double-spotted false-cowrie (Proterato bimaculata)

doubtful false rice-shell (Pisinna dubitabilis)

doubtful sea-lemon (Paradoris dubia)

doubtful sea-slug (Chromodoris ambigua)

doughboy scallop (Mimachlamys asperrima)

dreaming false-turrid (Guraleus alucinans)

Dromana lepton (Mysella dromanaensis)

drusilla sea-slug (Aeolidiella drusilla)

dull sinistral-creeper (Hedleytriphora innotabilis)

Dunker’s top-shell (Clanculus dunkeri)

Dunker’s tulip-shell (Microcolus dunkeri)

dusky pyramid-shell (Pyrgiscus fuscus)

dyed pyramid-shell (Syrnola tincta)

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