Red Ochre Beach, Dodges Ferry
Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (S), in the general area of Dodges Ferry, and at latitude 42.8601 (S), longitude 147.6099 (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.

Cryptoplax striata (streaky fleshy-chiton) (TMAG)

Chiton glaucus (green chiton) (TMAG, QVMAG)

Sypharochiton pelliserpentis (snakeskin chiton) (TMAG)

Ischnochiton australis (southern chiton) (TMAG)

Ischnochiton cariosus (decayed chiton) (TMAG)

Plaxiphora albida (whitened chiton) (TMAG)

Nuculana crassa (heavy nut-shell) (TMNA)

Limnoperna pulex (flea mussel) (TMNA)

Mytilus galloprovincialis planulatus (blue mussel) (TMAG, TMNA)

Barnea obturamentum (tongue-shaped angel-wing) (TMAG, TMNA)

Pholas australasiae (Australian angel-wing) (TMNA)

Myadora rotundata (Tasmanian myadora) (TMNA)

Fulvia tenuicostata (thin-ribbed cockle) (TMNA)

Divalucina cumingi (v-marked lucine) (TMNA)

Felaniella globularis (inflated globe-shell) (QVMAG)

Mactra antecedens (oval trough-shell) (TMAG)

Paphies elongata (elongate wedge-shell) (TMNA)

Gari livida (purple sunset-shell) (TMNA)

Pseudarcopagia botanica (Botany Bay tellin) (TMAG)

Placamen placidum (placid venus) (TMNA)

Dosinia caerulea (blue-tinged dosinia) (TMNA)

Dosinia grata (grata dosinia) (TMAG)

Irus carditoides (cardita-like boring-venus) (TMAG)

Venerupis anomala (little bean venus) (TMAG, TMNA)

Argonauta nodosus (knobbly paper-nautilus) (OTHER)

Patelloida alticostata (tall-ribbed limpet) (TMNA)

Patelloida insignis (Maltese-cross limpet) (TMAG, TMNA)

Cellana solida (orange-edged limpet) (TMAG, TMNA)

Montfortula rugosa (rough notch-limpet) (TMAG)

Chlorodiloma adelaidae (Adelaide top-shell) (TMNA)

Clanculus plebejus (people’s top-shell) (TMAG)

Astralium aureum (golden star-shell) (TMNA)

Notocypraea declivis (freckled cowrie) (TMAG)

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

Cominella lineolata (lined whelk) (TMAG)

Penion mandarinus (mandarin whelk) (TMAG)

Dicathais orbita (common cartrut-shell) (TMAG)

Doriopsilla carneola (carnelian sea-slug) (TMAG)

Doriopsilla peculiaris (peculiar sea-slug) (TMAG)

Pleurobranchaea maculata (spotted sea-slug) (TMAG)

Siphonaria diemenensis (common siphon-shell) (TMAG, QVMAG)




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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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