Kettering foreshore
Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (S), in the general area of Kettering, and at latitude 43.1255 (S), longitude 147.2497 (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.

Acanthochitona coxi (Cox’s chiton) (SJG)

Chiton glaucus (green chiton) (SJG)

Sypharochiton pelliserpentis (snakeskin chiton) (SJG)

Limnoperna pulex (flea mussel) (SJG)

Mytilus galloprovincialis planulatus (blue mussel) (SJG)

Crassostrea gigas (Pacific oyster) (SJG)

Ostrea angasi (common mud-oyster) (SJG)

Equichlamys bifrons (queen scallop) (SJG)

Pecten fumatus (king scallop) (SJG)

Electroma georgiana (common butterfly-shell) (SJG)

Hiatella australis (southern crypt-dweller) (SJG)

Varicorbula gibba (European basket-shell) (SJG)

Fulvia tenuicostata (thin-ribbed cockle) (SJG)

Venericardia bimaculata (splashed false-cockle) (SJG)

Lasaea australis (southern lasaea) (SJG)

Wallucina assimilis (common mud-lucine) (SJG)

Pseudarcopagia botanica (Botany Bay tellin) (SJG)

Macomona deltoidalis (triangular tellin) (SJG)

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

Katelysia rhytiphora (ridged venus) (SJG)

Katelysia scalarina (stepped venus) (SJG)

Venerupis anomala (little bean venus) (SJG)

Notoacmea flammea (flame limpet) (SJG)

Patelloida insignis (Maltese-cross limpet) (SJG)

Cellana solida (orange-edged limpet) (SJG)

Hemitoma subemarginata (giant notch-limpet) (SJG)

Montfortula rugosa (rough notch-limpet) (SJG)

Chlorodiloma odontis (chequered top-shell) (SJG)

Austrocochlea constricta (ribbed top-shell) (SJG)

Diloma concamerata (tessellated top-shell) (SJG)

Clanculus limbatus (keeled top-shell) (SJG)

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

Phasianotrochus irisodontes (rainbow kelp-shell) (SJG)

Astralium aureum (golden star-shell) (SJG)

Cacozeliana granaria (grainy creeper) (SJG)

Diala suturalis (sutured diala) (SJG)

Alaba monile (spotted alaba) (SJG)

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

Bembicium auratum (estuarine conniwink) (SJG)

Bembicium melanostoma (black-mouth conniwink) (SJG)

Bembicium nanum (striped conniwink) (SJG)

Afrolittorina praetermissa (checkered australwink) (SJG)

Austrolittorina unifasciata (banded australwink) (SJG)

Cominella lineolata (lined whelk) (SJG)

Mitrella semiconvexa (semiconvex dove-shell) (SJG)

Pseudamycla miltostoma (milky-mouthed dove-shell) (SJG)

Nassarius nigellus (little dog-whelk) (SJG)

Nassarius pauperatus (impoverished dog-whelk) (SJG)

Dicathais orbita (common cartrut-shell) (SJG)

Siphonaria diemenensis (common siphon-shell) (SJG)

Siphonaria funiculata (corded 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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