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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Cape Pillar (offshore, unlocalised)  
Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (S), in the general area of Cape Pillar, and at latitude 43.2217 (S), longitude 148.2167 (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.

Myadora albida (whitish myadora-clam)

Tectonatica shorehami (Shorehams necklace-shell)

Exomilus dyscritos (dyscritos turrid-cone-shell)

Austromitra analogica (analog ribbed-mitre)

Cystiscus cratericulus (cratericula margin-shell)

Anatrophon sarmentosus (sarmentose trophon-shell)

Enatimene simplex (simple trophon-shell)

Litozamia rudolphi (Rudolphs trophon-shell)

Ollaphon molorthus (molorthus trophon-shell)

Liostomia capiticava (capiticava pyramid-shell)

Diacria trispinosa (three-spined sea-butterfly)