Sommers Beach
Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (S), in the general area of Murdunna, and at latitude 42.9706 (S), longitude 147.8319 (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) (SJG, TMNA)

Sypharochiton pelliserpentis (snakeskin chiton) (SJG, TMNA)

Austromytilus rostratus (common beaked-mussel) (TMNA)

Brachidontes erosus (eroded beaked-mussel) (SJG)

Limnoperna pulex (flea mussel) (SJG)

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

Crassostrea gigas (Pacific oyster) (TMNA)

Ostrea angasi (common mud-oyster) (SJG, TMNA)

Fulvia tenuicostata (thin-ribbed cockle) (SJG, TMNA)

Lasaea australis (southern lasaea) (TMNA)

Epicodakia tatei (Tate’s lucine) (TMNA)

Wallucina assimilis (common mud-lucine) (SJG)

Anapella cycladea (smooth-toothed triangle) (SJG)

Paphies erycinaea (eryx wedge-shell) (SJG, TMNA)

Gari livida (purple sunset-shell) (SJG)

Soletellina alba (white sunset-shell) (SJG)

Soletellina biradiata (double-rayed sunset-shell) (SJG, TMNA)

Macomona deltoidalis (triangular tellin) (SJG, TMNA)

Placamen placidum (placid venus) (SJG, TMNA)

Eumarcia fumigata (smoky venus) (SJG, TMNA)

Irus griseus (Tasmanian boring-venus) (SJG, TMNA)

Katelysia rhytiphora (ridged venus) (SJG)

Katelysia scalarina (stepped venus) (SJG, TMNA)

Venerupis anomala (little bean venus) (SJG)

Notoacmea flammea (flame limpet) (SJG)

Patelloida alticostata (tall-ribbed limpet) (SJG)

Patelloida insignis (Maltese-cross limpet) (SJG)

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

Gibbula hisseyiana (Hisseyian kelp-shell) (TMNA)

Austrocochlea brevis (short top-shell) (SJG)

Austrocochlea constricta (ribbed top-shell) (SJG, TMNA)

Diloma concamerata (tessellated top-shell) (SJG, TMNA)

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

Phasianotrochus irisodontes (rainbow kelp-shell) (SJG, TMNA)

Batillariella estuarina (estuarine mud-creeper) (SJG)

Zeacumantus diemenensis (common mud-creeper) (SJG)

Cacozeliana granaria (grainy creeper) (TMNA)

Diala suturalis (sutured diala) (SJG)

Alaba monile (spotted alaba) (SJG)

Bembicium auratum (estuarine conniwink) (SJG, TMNA)

Bembicium melanostoma (black-mouth conniwink) (SJG)

Bembicium nanum (striped conniwink) (SJG)

Afrolittorina praetermissa (checkered australwink) (SJG)

Austrolittorina unifasciata (banded australwink) (SJG, TMNA)

Polinices conica (conical sand-snail) (SJG, TMNA)

Cominella lineolata (lined whelk) (SJG, TMNA)

Mitrella semiconvexa (semiconvex dove-shell) (SJG)

Nassarius nigellus (little dog-whelk) (SJG)

Nassarius pauperatus (impoverished dog-whelk) (SJG, TMNA)

Nassarius pyrrhus (pyrrhus dog-whelk) (SJG)

Bedeva paivae (mussel drill) (SJG, TMNA, OTHER)

Haustrum vinosum (purple-mouthed rock-shell) (TMNA)

Philine angasi (Angas’ bubble-shell) (TMAG)

Salinator fragilis (fragile air-breather) (TMNA)

Siphonaria diemenensis (common siphon-shell) (SJG, 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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