Primrose Beach to Carlton Bluff

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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Previous locality (heading anticlockwise around the coast): Primrose Point Next locality (heading clockwise around the coast): Frederick Henry Bay (unlocalised)

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)

Sypharochiton pelliserpentis (snakeskin chiton)

Glycymeris striatularis (striated dog-cockle)

Austromytilus rostratus (common beaked mussel)

Mytilus galloprovincialis planulatus (edible mussel)

Crassostrea gigas (Pacific oyster)

Ostrea angasi (common mud-oyster)

Fulvia tenuicostata (thin-ribbed cockle)

Cyamiomactra mactroides (mactroid bean-shell)

Lasaea australis (Southern lepton-clam)

Mactra rufescens (reddish trough-shell)

Anapella cycladea (smooth-toothed triangle-clam)