Bloodstone Beach, Maria Island
Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (E), in the general area of Maria Island, and at latitude 42.6468 (S), longitude 148.0384 (E). Its location (to the nearest 10 km) is shown on the map below. This location lies within the Freycinet 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.

Glycymeris striatularis (common dog-cockle) (SJG)

Brachidontes erosus (eroded beaked-mussel) (SJG)

Modiolus albicostatus (white-sided horse-mussel) (SJG)

Mytilus galloprovincialis planulatus (blue mussel) (SJG)

Ostrea angasi (common mud-oyster) (SJG)

Equichlamys bifrons (queen scallop) (SJG)

Mimachlamys asperrima (doughboy scallop) (SJG)

Pecten fumatus (king scallop) (SJG)

Panopea australis (southern gaper) (SJG)

Fulvia tenuicostata (thin-ribbed cockle) (SJG)

Divalucina cumingi (v-marked lucine) (SJG)

Paphies elongata (elongate wedge-shell) (SJG)

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

Circomphalus disjecta (wedding-cake venus) (SJG)

Tawera gallinula (feathered venus) (SJG)

Irus carditoides (cardita-like boring-venus) (SJG)

Katelysia rhytiphora (ridged venus) (SJG)

Argonauta nodosus (knobbly paper-nautilus) (SJG)

Sepia apama (giant cuttlefish) (SJG)

Bankivia fasciata (banded kelp-shell) (SJG)

Maoricolpus roseus (New Zealand screw-shell) (SJG)

Eunaticina umbilicata (umbilicated sand-snail) (SJG)

Polinices conica (conical sand-snail) (SJG)

Sinum zonale (zoned sinum) (SJG)

Cabestana spengleri (Spengler’s rock-whelk) (SJG)

Semicassis pyrum (pear helmet) (SJG)

Semicassis semigranosum (half-grained helmet) (SJG)

Pleuroploca australasia (Australian tulip-shell) (SJG)

Austroginella muscaria (fly-like margin-shell) (SJG)

Mitra badia (dark brown mitre) (SJG)

Bedeva paivae (mussel drill) (SJG)

Amoria undulata (wavy volute) (SJG)

Ericusa sowerbyi (Sowerby’s volute) (SJG)

Aplysia juliana (Julian sea-hare) (SJG)

Siphonaria diemenensis (common siphon-shell) (SJG)




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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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