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Psammobiidae: Soletellina (Soletellina) alba (Lamarck, 1818) ('white sunset-shell')
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Synonym(s):
alba Lamarck, 1818
donacioides Reeve, 1857
florida Gould, 1850 (non Turton, 1822)
onuphria Iredale, 1936.
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Figure a: 44 mm, Murdunna, Tas (S). Figures b-c: 37 mm, Low Head, Tas (N). Figure d: 23 mm, Murdunna, Tas (S). |
Typical shell-length 45 mm. Posterior and anterior margins almost parallel. Shell thin and normally bluish, rarely white. Periostracum thin and rarely fully persistent. Lives intertidally and subtidally in sand and mud, especially in sheltered environments.
Occurs all around Australia (QLD, NSW, TAS, VIC, SA, WA and NT); not recorded elsewhere. In Tasmania this is a rare species, most often recorded in the SE.
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