Cockle Creek Bay
Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (S), in the general area of Catamaran, and at latitude 43.5808 (S), longitude 146.8895 (E). Its location (to the nearest 10 km) is shown on the map below. This location lies within the Davey 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.

Chiton glaucus (green chiton) (TMNA)

Sypharochiton pelliserpentis (snakeskin chiton) (TMNA)

Glycymeris striatularis (common dog-cockle) (TMNA)

Limnoperna pulex (flea mussel) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Mytilus galloprovincialis planulatus (blue mussel) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Crassostrea gigas (Pacific oyster) (SJG)

Ostrea angasi (common mud-oyster) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Fulvia tenuicostata (thin-ribbed cockle) (SJG, TMAG, MHR, TMNA)

Wallucina assimilis (common mud-lucine) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Paphies elongata (elongate wedge-shell) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Paphies erycinaea (eryx wedge-shell) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Gari livida (purple sunset-shell) (MHR, TMNA)

Soletellina biradiata (double-rayed sunset-shell) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Placamen placidum (placid venus) (SJG, MHR)

Tawera gallinula (feathered venus) (MHR)

Dosinia caerulea (blue-tinged dosinia) (MHR)

Callista diemenensis (Tasmanian callista) (TMAG, TMNA)

Eumarcia fumigata (smoky venus) (SJG, MHR)

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

Irus griseus (Tasmanian boring-venus) (TMNA)

Katelysia rhytiphora (ridged venus) (SJG)

Katelysia scalarina (stepped venus) (SJG, TMAG, MHR, TMNA)

Venerupis anomala (little bean venus) (SJG, TMNA)

Venerupis galactites (milk-stone venus) (MHR)

Eoacmaea calamus (delicate limpet) (MHR)

Notoacmea flammea (flame limpet) (SJG)

Patelloida alticostata (tall-ribbed limpet) (SJG, TMNA)

Patelloida insignis (Maltese-cross limpet) (TMNA)

Cellana solida (orange-edged limpet) (TMNA)

Scutellastra chapmani (Chapman’s limpet) (TMNA)

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

Haliotis rubra (blacklip abalone) (SJG, TMNA)

Emarginula candida (white notch-limpet) (TMNA)

Chlorodiloma odontis (chequered top-shell) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Austrocochlea brevis (short top-shell) (SJG, TMNA)

Austrocochlea constricta (ribbed top-shell) (MHR, TMNA)

Diloma concamerata (tessellated top-shell) (SJG, MHR)

Clanculus limbatus (keeled top-shell) (TMAG, MHR)

Clanculus plebejus (people’s top-shell) (SJG)

Phasianotrochus irisodontes (rainbow kelp-shell) (TMNA)

Bankivia fasciata (banded kelp-shell) (TMNA)

Astralium aureum (golden star-shell) (SJG, TMNA)

Turbo undulatus (wavy turban) (SJG, TMAG, TMNA)

Cacozeliana granaria (grainy creeper) (SJG)

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

Bembicium auratum (estuarine conniwink) (SJG, TMNA)

Bembicium nanum (striped conniwink) (SJG)

Austrolittorina unifasciata (banded australwink) (TMNA)

Polinices conica (conical sand-snail) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Cominella lineolata (lined whelk) (SJG, TMNA)

Nassarius pauperatus (impoverished dog-whelk) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Dicathais orbita (common cartrut-shell) (TMNA)

Aplysia sydneyensis (Sydney sea-hare) (TMNA)

Salinator fragilis (fragile air-breather) (SJG, MHR, TMNA)

Siphonaria diemenensis (common siphon-shell) (SJG, MHR)

Siphonaria funiculata (corded siphon-shell) (SJG, TMNA)

Siphonaria tasmanica (blue 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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