Waterhouse Beach (unlocalised)
Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (N), in the general area of Waterhouse, and at latitude 40.9985 (S), longitude 147.4523 (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.

Solemya australis (southern date-shell) (MHR)

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

Fulvia tenuicostata (thin-ribbed cockle) (QVMAG, MHR)

Pratulum thetidis (thetis cockle) (MHR)

Lasaea australis (southern lasaea) (MHR)

Myrtea botanica (Botany Bay lucine) (MHR)

Wallucina assimilis (common mud-lucine) (MHR)

Mactra antecedens (oval trough-shell) (QVMAG)

Mactra pura (white trough-shell) (MHR)

Anapella cycladea (smooth-toothed triangle) (MHR)

Paphies elongata (elongate wedge-shell) (MHR)

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

Placamen placidum (placid venus) (QVMAG)

Dosinia caerulea (blue-tinged dosinia) (QVMAG, MHR)

Dosinia grata (grata dosinia) (MHR)

Dosinia victoriae (Victorian dosinia) (MHR)

Venerupis anomala (little bean venus) (MHR)

Venerupis galactites (milk-stone venus) (MHR)

Haliotis laevigata (greenlip abalone) (QVMAG)

Cosmetalepas concatenatus (pitted keyhole-limpet) (MHR)

Macroschisma tasmaniae (Tasmanian keyhole-limpet) (MHR)

Astralium aureum (golden star-shell) (MHR)

Astralium squamiferum (scaly star-shell) (MHR)

Pellasimnia maccoyi (Maccoy’s spindle-cowrie) (OTHER)

Janthina janthina (common violet-snail) (MHR)

Bembicium nanum (striped conniwink) (MHR)

Polinices conica (conical sand-snail) (QVMAG)

Hipponix australis (southern bonnet-limpet) (MHR)

Mitrella menkeana (pointed dove-shell) (QVMAG)

Siphonaria diemenensis (common siphon-shell) (MHR)




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