Little Chinaman Bay
Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (S), in the general area of Forestier Peninsula, and at latitude 42.8497 (S), longitude 147.891 (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.

Glycymeris striatularis (common dog-cockle) (MHR)

Brachidontes erosus (eroded beaked-mussel) (MHR)

Modiolus areolatus (bearded horse-mussel) (MHR)

Crassostrea gigas (Pacific oyster) (MHR)

Vulsella spongiarum (common sponge-finger) (MHR)

Myadora complexa (complex myadora) (MHR)

Eucrassatella kingicola (King Island thickshell-clam) (MHR)

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

Katelysia scalarina (stepped venus) (MHR)

Venerupis galactites (milk-stone venus) (MHR)

Patelloida alticostata (tall-ribbed limpet) (MHR)

Patelloida insignis (Maltese-cross limpet) (MHR)

Cellana solida (orange-edged limpet) (MHR)

Scutellastra peronii (scaly limpet) (MHR)

Diloma concamerata (tessellated top-shell) (MHR)

Clanculus limbatus (keeled top-shell) (MHR)

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

Phasianotrochus irisodontes (rainbow kelp-shell) (MHR)

Astralium aureum (golden star-shell) (MHR)

Turbo undulatus (wavy turban) (MHR)

Zeacumantus diemenensis (common mud-creeper) (MHR)

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

Notocypraea angustata (brown cowrie) (MHR)

Bembicium nanum (striped conniwink) (MHR)

Polinices conica (conical sand-snail) (MHR)

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

Sassia verrucosa (warted rock-whelk) (MHR)

Argobuccinum pustulosum (flag triton) (MHR)

Semicassis pyrum (pear helmet) (MHR)

Semicassis semigranosum (half-grained helmet) (MHR)

Antisabia foliacea (leafy bonnet-limpet) (MHR)

Hipponix australis (southern bonnet-limpet) (MHR)

Cominella lineolata (lined whelk) (MHR)

Pleuroploca australasia (Australian tulip-shell) (TMAG, MHR)

Nassarius pauperatus (impoverished dog-whelk) (MHR)

Conus anemone (anemone cone) (MHR)

Agnewia tritoniformis (triton-like rock-shell) (MHR)

Dicathais orbita (common cartrut-shell) (MHR)

Amoria undulata (wavy volute) (MHR)

Philine angasi (Angas’ bubble-shell) (MHR)

Siphonaria diemenensis (common 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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