Dunalley Bay, Dunalley

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

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Dunalley Bay, Dunalley

Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (S), in the general area of Dunalley, and at latitude 42.8927 (S), longitude 147.7994 (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.

Mytilus galloprovincialis planulatus (edible mussel)

Xenostrobus inconstans (variable horse mussel)

Fulvia tenuicostata (thin-ribbed cockle)

Anapella cycladea (smooth-toothed triangle-clam)

Paphies erycinaea (eryx wedge-shell)

Soletellina biradiata (double-rayed sunset-shell)

Macomona deltoidalis (triangular tellin)

Irus griseus (Tasmanian boring-clam)

Katelysia scalarina (stepped venus-clam)

Notoacmea alta (tall limpet)

Notoacmea petterdi (Petterds limpet)

Austrocochlea constricta (ribbed top-shell)