Sandy Spit, Three Hummock Island
Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (N), in the general area of Three Hummock Island, and at latitude 40.4691 (S), longitude 144.8578 (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 albicostatus (white-sided horse-mussel) (TMAG)

Modiolus areolatus (bearded horse-mussel) (TMAG)

Mytilus galloprovincialis planulatus (blue mussel) (TMAG)

Ostrea angasi (common mud-oyster) (TMAG)

Mimachlamys asperrima (doughboy scallop) (TMAG)

Pecten fumatus (king scallop) (TMAG)

Electroma georgiana (common butterfly-shell) (TMAG)

Fulvia tenuicostata (thin-ribbed cockle) (TMAG)

Acrosterigma cygnorum (oblique cockle) (TMAG)

Paphies elongata (elongate wedge-shell) (TMAG)

Solen vaginoides (southern razor-shell) (TMAG)

Soletellina biradiata (double-rayed sunset-shell) (TMAG)

Circomphalus disjecta (wedding-cake venus) (TMAG)

Tawera gallinula (feathered venus) (TMAG)

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

Patelloida alticostata (tall-ribbed limpet) (TMAG)

Patelloida insignis (Maltese-cross limpet) (TMAG)

Cellana solida (orange-edged limpet) (TMAG)

Scutellastra peronii (scaly limpet) (TMAG)

Haliotis rubra (blacklip abalone) (TMAG)

Haliotis scalaris emmae (Emma’s abalone) (TMAG)

Chlorodiloma adelaidae (Adelaide top-shell) (TMAG)

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

Turbo undulatus (wavy turban) (TMAG)

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

Notocypraea angustata (brown cowrie) (TMAG)

Bembicium nanum (striped conniwink) (TMAG)

Polinices conica (conical sand-snail) (TMAG)

Semicassis semigranosum (half-grained helmet) (TMAG)

Hipponix australis (southern bonnet-limpet) (TMAG)

Conus anemone (anemone cone) (TMAG)

Amoria undulata (wavy volute) (TMAG)

Siphonaria diemenensis (common siphon-shell) (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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