Newmans Beach, Koonya

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

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Newmans Beach, Koonya

Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (S), in the general area of Koonya, and at latitude 43.0547 (S), longitude 147.8446 (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.

Brachidontes erosus (eroded beaked mussel)

Mytilus galloprovincialis planulatus (edible mussel)

Xenostrobus inconstans (variable horse mussel)

Electroma georgiana (common butterfly-shell)

Anapella cycladea (smooth-toothed triangle-clam)

Paphies erycinaea (eryx wedge-shell)

Soletellina biradiata (double-rayed sunset-shell)

Eumarcia fumigata (smoked venus-clam)

Katelysia rhytiphora (ridged venus-clam)

Katelysia scalarina (stepped venus-clam)

Austrocochlea brevis (short top-shell)

Austrocochlea constricta (ribbed top-shell)