St Helens (unlocalised)
Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (E), in the general area of St Helens, and at latitude 41.3241 (S), longitude 148.2538 (E). Its location (to the nearest 10 km) is shown on the map below. This location lies within the Freycinet 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.

Barbatia pistachia (hairy ark-shell) (MHR)

Glycymeris striatularis (common dog-cockle) (QVMAG, MHR)

Austromytilus rostratus (common beaked-mussel) (MHR)

Mytilus galloprovincialis planulatus (blue mussel) (TMAG)

Ostrea angasi (common mud-oyster) (MHR)

Mimachlamys asperrima (doughboy scallop) (MHR)

Pecten fumatus (king scallop) (QVMAG, MHR)

Neotrigonia margaritacea (pearly brooch-shell) (MHR)

Paphies elongata (elongate wedge-shell) (TMAG, QVMAG)

Solen vaginoides (southern razor-shell) (MHR)

Circomphalus disjecta (wedding-cake venus) (QVMAG, MHR)

Placamen placidum (placid venus) (MHR)

Tawera gallinula (feathered venus) (MHR)

Venerupis largillierti (New Zealand venus) (TMAG)

Octopus berrima (southern keeled octopus) (TMAG, QVMAG)

Euprymna tasmanica (southern dumpling-squid) (TMAG)

Histioteuthis miranda (admirable squid) (TMAG)

Eoacmaea calamus (delicate limpet) (MHR)

Patelloida alticostata (tall-ribbed limpet) (MHR)

Haliotis rubra (blacklip abalone) (TMAG, MHR)

Montfortula rugosa (rough notch-limpet) (MHR)

Chlorodiloma odontis (chequered top-shell) (MHR)

Diloma concamerata (tessellated top-shell) (QVMAG)

Phasianotrochus irisodontes (rainbow kelp-shell) (MHR)

Bankivia fasciata (banded kelp-shell) (MHR)

Turbo undulatus (wavy turban) (QVMAG, MHR)

Zeacumantus diemenensis (common mud-creeper) (MHR)

Colpospira australis (southern screw-shell) (MHR)

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

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

Opalia australis (southern wentletrap) (MHR)

Bembicium nanum (striped conniwink) (MHR)

Polinices conica (conical sand-snail) (MHR)

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

Sassia bassi (Bassian rock-whelk) (MHR)

Sassia subdistorta (distorted rock-whelk) (MHR)

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

Nassarius pauperatus (impoverished dog-whelk) (TMAG)

Austroginella muscaria (fly-like margin-shell) (TMAG, MHR)

Austroginella tasmanica (Tasmanian margin-shell) (QVMAG)

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

Agnewia tritoniformis (triton-like rock-shell) (MHR)

Dicathais orbita (common cartrut-shell) (TMAG, MHR)

Amoria undulata (wavy volute) (MHR)

Siphonaria diemenensis (common siphon-shell) (MHR)

Siphonaria funiculata (corded siphon-shell) (QVMAG)




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