A Guide to the Seashells and other Marine Molluscs of Tasmania, by Simon Grove 

Last build: Mon Jun 21 11:37:37 Tasmania Standard Time 2010

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Black Jack Point, Sloping Main  

Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (S), in the general area of Nubeena, and at latitude 42.9939 (S), longitude 147.6553 (E). Its location (to the nearest 10 km) is shown on the map below. This location lies within the Bruny 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.

Sypharochiton pelliserpentis (snakeskin chiton)

Brachidontes erosus (eroded beaked mussel)

Modiolus albicostatus (white-ribbed horse mussel)

Modiolus areolatus (Cottons bearded horse mussel)

Mytilus galloprovincialis planulatus (edible mussel)

Xenostrobus pulex (little black horse mussel)

Crassostrea gigas (Pacific oyster)

Ostrea angasi (common mud-oyster)

Equichlamys bifrons (queen scallop)

Mimachlamys asperrima (doughboy scallop)

Pecten fumatus (king scallop)

Electroma georgiana (common butterfly-shell)

Barnea obturamentum (tongue-shaped angel-wing)

Cleidothaerus albidus (white rock-clam)

Fulvia tenuicostata (thin-ribbed cockle)

Lasaea australis (Southern lepton-clam)

Wallucina assimilis (assimilated lucine)

Mactra antecedens (oval trough-shell)

Pseudarcopagia botanica (decussated tellin)

Placamen placidum (placid venus-clam)

Tawera gallinula (feathered venus-clam)

Timoclea cardioides (cockle-like venus-clam)

Dosinia caerulea (blue-tinged dosinia-clam)

Callista diemenensis (Tasmanian notocallista-clam)

Irus carditoides (cardita-like boring-clam)

Katelysia rhytiphora (ridged venus-clam)

Katelysia scalarina (stepped venus-clam)

Venerupis anomala (little bean venus-clam)

Venerupis iridescens (irridescent venus-clam)

Notoacmea flammea (flame limpet)

Patelloida alticostata (tall-ribbed limpet)

Cellana solida (orange-edged limpet)

Montfortula rugosa (rugose notch-limpet)

Scutus antipodes (common elephant-snail)

Haliotis rubra rubra (blacklip abalone)

Austrocochlea brevis (short top-shell)

Austrocochlea constricta (ribbed top-shell)

Chlorodiloma odontis (chequered top-shell)

Clanculus plebejus (peoples top-shell)

Diloma concamerata (concamerated top-shell)

Phasianotrochus irisodontes (rainbow kelp-shell)

Phasianella australis (painted lady pheasant-shell)

Astralium aureum (golden star-shell)

Turbo undulatus (wavy turban-shell)

Zeacumantus diemenensis (common creeper)

Cacozeliana granaria (granulated creeper)

Diala suturalis (sutured diala)

Alaba monile (spotted alaba)

Maoricolpus roseus (New Zealand screw-shell)

Notocypraea angustata (brown cowrie)

Bembicium melanostomum (black-mouth conniwink)

Bembicium nanum (striped-mouth conniwink)

Afrolittorina praetermissa (checked australwink)

Austrolittorina unifasciata (banded australwink)

Polinices conica (conical sand-snail)

Cabestana spengleri (Spenglers rock-whelk)

Sassia verrucosa (warted sand-whelk)

Cominella lineolata (lineated whelk)

Mitrella leucostoma (white-mouthed dove-shell)

Mitrella lincolnensis (Port Lincoln dove-shell)

Mitrella semiconvexa (semiconvex dove-shell)

Pseudamycla miltostoma (miltostoma dove-shell)

Pleuroploca australasia (Australian tulip-shell)

Fusinus novaehollandiae (New Holland spindle-shell)

Nassarius nigellus (little mud-snail)

Nassarius pauperatus (impoverished mud-snail)

Conus anemone (anemone cone-shell)

Austromitra analogica (analog ribbed-mitre)

Mesoginella pygmaeoides (pygmy margin-shell)

Haustrum vinosum (wine-mouthed rock-shell)

Dicathais orbita (common cartrut-shell)

Amoria undulata (wavy volute)

Siphonaria diemenensis (Van Diemens Land siphon-shell)