Primrose Beach to Carlton Bluff
Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (S), in the general area of Primrose Sands, and at latitude 42.8862 (S), longitude 147.6561 (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.

Chiton glaucus (green chiton) (TMNA)

Sypharochiton pelliserpentis (snakeskin chiton) (TMNA)

Glycymeris striatularis (common dog-cockle) (TMNA)

Austromytilus rostratus (common beaked-mussel) (TMNA)

Mytilus galloprovincialis planulatus (blue mussel) (TMNA)

Crassostrea gigas (Pacific oyster) (TMNA)

Ostrea angasi (common mud-oyster) (TMNA)

Fulvia tenuicostata (thin-ribbed cockle) (TMNA)

Cyamiomactra mactroides (trough-like bean-shell) (TMNA)

Lasaea australis (southern lasaea) (TMNA)

Mactra rufescens (reddish trough-shell) (TMNA)

Anapella cycladea (smooth-toothed triangle) (TMNA)

Paphies elongata (elongate wedge-shell) (TMNA)

Paphies erycinaea (eryx wedge-shell) (TMNA)

Placamen placidum (placid venus) (TMNA)

Dosinia caerulea (blue-tinged dosinia) (TMNA)

Venerupis anomala (little bean venus) (TMNA)

Notoacmea flammea (flame limpet) (TMNA)

Cellana solida (orange-edged limpet) (TMNA)

Austrocochlea constricta (ribbed top-shell) (TMNA)

Diloma concamerata (tessellated top-shell) (TMNA)

Bankivia fasciata (banded kelp-shell) (TMNA)

Turbo undulatus (wavy turban) (TMNA)

Velacumantus australis (southern mud-creeper) (TMNA)

Zeacumantus diemenensis (common mud-creeper) (TMNA)

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

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

Bembicium nanum (striped conniwink) (TMNA)

Austrolittorina unifasciata (banded australwink) (TMNA)

Polinices conica (conical sand-snail) (TMNA)

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

Semicassis pyrum (pear helmet) (TMNA)

Semicassis semigranosum (half-grained helmet) (TMNA)

Cominella lineolata (lined whelk) (TMNA)

Pleuroploca australasia (Australian tulip-shell) (TMNA)

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

Nassarius pauperatus (impoverished dog-whelk) (TMNA)

Mitra glabra (smooth mitre) (TMNA)

Dicathais orbita (common cartrut-shell) (TMNA)

Amoria undulata (wavy volute) (TMNA)




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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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