Battery Bay, Cape Barren Island
Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (N), in the general area of Cape Barren Island, and at latitude 40.4373 (S), longitude 148.1966 (E). Its location (to the nearest 10 km) is shown on the map below. This location lies within the Flinders bioregion.

Species recorded from this locality

The list below shows the species, listed in taxonomic order, for which there are records from this locality in the database underlying these web-pages. Doubtful records have been excluded. Sources are as follows: SJG - Simon Grove records; TMAG - Tasmanian Museum accesssions; QVMAG - Queen Victoria Museum accessions; MHR - Margaret Richmond records; TMNA - Tasmanian Marine Naturalists Association records; OTHER - other sources.

Brachidontes erosus (eroded beaked-mussel) (TMAG)

Limnoperna inconstans (variable mussel) (TMAG)

Mimachlamys asperrima (doughboy scallop) (TMAG)

Mysella donaciformis (wedge-shaped lepton) (TMAG)

Epicodakia tatei (Tate’s lucine) (TMAG)

Paphies cuneata (wedge-shaped wedge-shell) (TMAG)

Paphies elongata (elongate wedge-shell) (TMAG)

Soletellina biradiata (double-rayed sunset-shell) (TMAG)

Katelysia rhytiphora (ridged venus) (TMAG)

Katelysia scalarina (stepped venus) (TMAG)

Cellana solida (orange-edged limpet) (TMAG)

Phasianella australis (painted-lady pheasant-shell) (TMAG)

Austrocochlea constricta (ribbed top-shell) (TMAG)

Diloma concamerata (tessellated top-shell) (TMAG)

Clanculus aloysii (Saint Aloysius’ top-shell) (TMAG)

Astralium aureum (golden star-shell) (TMAG)

Batillariella estuarina (estuarine mud-creeper) (TMAG)

Zeacumantus diemenensis (common mud-creeper) (TMAG)

Bembicium auratum (estuarine conniwink) (TMAG)

Bembicium melanostoma (black-mouth conniwink) (TMAG)

Bembicium nanum (striped conniwink) (TMAG)

Hydrococcus brazieri (Brazier’s hydrococcus) (TMAG)

Truncatella scalarina (laddered truncatella) (TMAG)

Sassia eburnea (pink-tipped rock-whelk) (TMAG)

Antisabia foliacea (leafy bonnet-limpet) (TMAG)

Hipponix australis (southern bonnet-limpet) (TMAG)

Cominella lineolata (lined whelk) (TMAG)

Nassarius pyrrhus (pyrrhus dog-whelk) (TMAG)

Pterochelus triformis (three-cornered murex) (TMAG)

Dicathais orbita (common cartrut-shell) (TMAG)

Retusa pelyx (bowl canoe-shell) (TMAG)




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Information and disclaimer: The web-pages on this web-site are generated from an underlying database. These can be cited as Grove, S.J. (2011). A Guide to the Seashells and other Marine Molluscs of Tasmania web-site and database respectively. Whilst great care is taken to accurately identify specimens featured on this web-site and to allocate all records to the most appropriate taxonomic names available, no guarantee is offered that all identifications are accurate, nor that the taxa to which they have been allocated are currently valid. Commentaries on habitat, distribution and biology are also subject to change as new information comes to light. If you have any enquiries, or any comments that will help improve the content or appearance of these pages, then please follow the links from 'contact' on the left-hand panel.

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