Picnic Point, Duck Bay
Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (N), in the general area of Smithton, and at latitude 40.8016 (S), longitude 145.1128 (E). Its location (to the nearest 10 km) is shown on the map below. This location lies within the Boags 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) (TMAG)

Modiolus areolatus (bearded horse-mussel) (TMAG)

Ostrea angasi (common mud-oyster) (TMAG)

Mimachlamys asperrima (doughboy scallop) (TMAG)

Pecten fumatus (king scallop) (TMAG)

Electroma georgiana (common butterfly-shell) (TMAG)

Neotrigonia margaritacea (pearly brooch-shell) (TMAG)

Panopea australis (southern gaper) (TMAG)

Pholas australasiae (Australian angel-wing) (TMAG)

Fulvia tenuicostata (thin-ribbed cockle) (TMAG)

Cyamiomactra communis (common bean-shell) (TMAG)

Anapella cycladea (smooth-toothed triangle) (TMAG)

Paphies cuneata (wedge-shaped wedge-shell) (TMAG)

Paphies erycinaea (eryx wedge-shell) (TMAG)

Circomphalus disjecta (wedding-cake venus) (TMAG)

Placamen placidum (placid venus) (TMAG)

Cadulus vincentianus (Vincentian tusk-shell) (TMAG)

Phasianella australis (painted-lady pheasant-shell) (TMAG)

Haliotis laevigata (greenlip abalone) (TMAG)

Thalotia conica (conical kelp-shell) (TMAG)

Austrocochlea brevis (short top-shell) (TMAG)

Bankivia fasciata (banded kelp-shell) (TMAG)

Zeacumantus diemenensis (common mud-creeper) (TMAG)

Alaba monile (spotted alaba) (TMAG)

Gazameda gunnii (Gunn’s screw-shell) (TMAG)

Bembicium melanostoma (black-mouth conniwink) (TMAG)

Austrolittorina unifasciata (banded australwink) (TMAG)

Anabathron luteofuscus (yellowish false rice-shell) (TMAG)

Badepigrus badius (dark brown false rice-shell) (TMAG)

Hydrococcus brazieri (Brazier’s hydrococcus) (TMAG)

Sassia bassi (Bassian rock-whelk) (TMAG)

Sassia subdistorta (distorted rock-whelk) (TMAG)

Semicassis pyrum (pear helmet) (TMAG)

Brucetriphora granifera (grainy sinistral-creeper) (TMAG)

Cominella lineolata (lined whelk) (TMAG)

Anachis interrupta (interrupted dove-shell) (TMAG)

Pleuroploca australasia (Australian tulip-shell) (TMAG)

Fusinus novaehollandiae (New Holland spindle-shell) (TMAG)

Nassarius pauperatus (impoverished dog-whelk) (TMAG)

Nassarius pyrrhus (pyrrhus dog-whelk) (TMAG)

Conus anemone (anemone cone) (TMAG)

Bedeva paivae (mussel drill) (TMAG)

Amoria undulata (wavy volute) (TMAG)




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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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