Big River Cove, Flinders Island
Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (N), in the general area of Flinders Island, and at latitude 40.2637 (S), longitude 148.0957 (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.

Barbatia pistachia (hairy ark-shell) (MHR)

Glycymeris radians (radiant dog-cockle) (MHR)

Brachidontes erosus (eroded beaked-mussel) (MHR)

Musculus impactus (nesting mussel) (MHR)

Equichlamys bifrons (queen scallop) (MHR)

Mimachlamys asperrima (doughboy scallop) (MHR)

Notochlamys hexactes (Tasmanian scallop) (MHR)

Pecten fumatus (king scallop) (MHR)

Fulvia tenuicostata (thin-ribbed cockle) (MHR)

Wallucina assimilis (common mud-lucine) (MHR)

Mactra jacksonensis (Port Jackson trough-shell) (MHR)

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

Eoacmaea calamus (delicate limpet) (MHR)

Patelloida alticostata (tall-ribbed limpet) (MHR)

Cellana solida (orange-edged limpet) (MHR)

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

Haliotis laevigata (greenlip abalone) (MHR)

Haliotis scalaris emmae (Emma’s abalone) (MHR)

Thalotia conica (conical kelp-shell) (MHR)

Diloma concamerata (tessellated top-shell) (MHR)

Clanculus limbatus (keeled top-shell) (MHR)

Phasianotrochus irisodontes (rainbow kelp-shell) (MHR)

Astralium aureum (golden star-shell) (MHR)

Cacozeliana granaria (grainy creeper) (MHR)

Bembicium nanum (striped conniwink) (MHR)

Afrolittorina praetermissa (checkered australwink) (MHR)

Austrolittorina unifasciata (banded australwink) (MHR)

Hipponix australis (southern bonnet-limpet) (MHR)

Serpulorbis sipho (common worm-shell) (MHR)

Cominella eburnea (ivory whelk) (MHR)

Cominella lineolata (lined whelk) (MHR)

Mitrella semiconvexa (semiconvex dove-shell) (MHR)

Conus anemone (anemone cone) (MHR)

Vexillum australe (southern mitre) (MHR)

Pterochelus triformis (three-cornered murex) (MHR)

Bulla quoyii (Botany Bay bubble-shell) (MHR)

Siphonaria diemenensis (common siphon-shell) (MHR)




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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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