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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Murdunna foreshore  
Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (S), in the general area of Murdunna, and at latitude 42.9447 (S), longitude 147.8644 (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 sueurii (Lesueurs acantho chiton)

Sypharochiton pelliserpentis (snakeskin chiton)

Brachidontes erosus (eroded beaked mussel)

Lasaea australis (Southern lepton-clam)

Notoacmea petterdi (Petterds limpet)

Austrocochlea constricta (ribbed top-shell)

Diloma concamerata (concamerated top-shell)

Bembicium auratum (gold-mouth conniwink)

Bembicium melanostomum (black-mouth conniwink)

Cominella lineolata (lineated whelk)

Fusinus novaehollandiae (New Holland spindle-shell)

Nassarius pauperatus (impoverished mud-snail)

Haustrum vinosum (wine-mouthed rock-shell)