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Molluscs of Tasmania

Mesodesmatidae – Mesodesmatinae: Atactodea erycinaea (Lamarck, 1818) (‘eryx wedge-shell’)

Synonym(s): erycinaea Lamarck, 1819 diemenensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1835.

Typical shell-length 30 mm. Dark periostracum is persistent but can be worn off beached shells. Lives intertidally and subtidally in sand and mud, especially on sheltered shores. Native. Endemic to southeastern Australia (TAS and VIC). In Tasmanian waters, this is a widespread and locally abundant species, especially towards the S.

Classification

Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Heterodonta
Order: Veneroida
Superfamily: Mactroidea
Family: Mesodesmatidae
Subfamily: Mesodesmatinae
Genus: Atactodea

A-L Localities for Atactodea erycinaea

Bathurst Channel: Schooner Cove
Bellerive Beach
Bellingham
Bicheno: Cod Rock
Binalong Bay: Dora Point
Binalong Bay: Grants Lagoon
Blackman Bay (unlocalised)
Black River Beach
Black River Beach: northern end
Black River Beach: southern end
Bridport: Adams Beach
Bridport: beach
Bridport: East Sandy Point
Bridport: Lades Beach
Bridport (unlocalised)
Cape Portland: Home Beach
Cape Portland (unlocalised)
Carlton: Park Beach
Chain of Lagoons: Piccaninny Point
Cockle Creek Bay
Coles Bay: Honeymoon Bay
Coles Bay: Richardsons Beach
Coles Bay (unlocalised)
Coningham Beach
Coningham: foreshore
Connellys Bay
Cremorne: foreshore
Cremorne: Pipe Clay Lagoon
Davey River: Carvers Point
Deephole Bay
D’Entrecasteaux Channel (unlocalised)
Devonport: Bluff Beach
Devonport: Coles Beach
Devonport: Paradise Cove (unlocalised)
Dodges Ferry: Okines Beach
Dover: beach
Dover: Kents Beach
Dover (unlocalised)
Dunalley Bay
Dunalley: beach
Eaglehawk Neck: western side
Earlham: foreshore
East Devonport: beach & breakwater
East Ulverstone
East Wynyard: beach
Edgcumbe Beach
Eggs-and-Bacon Bay
Electrona: Peggys Beach
Flinders Island: Fotheringate Beach: southern end
Flinders Island: Lillies Bay
Flinders Island: Port Davies & Cave Beach
Forth River: mouth
Freycinet Peninsula: Cooks Beach
Freycinet Peninsula: Hazards Beach
Garden Island Sands
Glenorchy: Cornelian Bay
Great Musselroe Bay: bar
Greens Beach: main beach
Hawley Beach
Hawley Beach: foreshore towards Point Sorell
Hellyer Beach
Herlihys Bay: coast to E
Hobart: Battery Point: Marieville Esplanade
Hobart: Sandy Bay: Long Beach to Blinking Billy Point
Hobart: Sandy Bay: Lords Beach & Wrest Point
Hobart: Sandy Bay (unlocalised)
Howden: foreshore
Howrah Beach
Ida Bay (unlocalised)
Kettering: Oyster Cove
Kettering: Trial Bay
Kingston Beach
Koonya: Cascades Bay
Koonya: Newmans Beach
Lauderdale: Ralphs Bay
Leith: foreshore
Leven River: mouth
Lewisham (unlocalised)
Lime Bay
Lime Bay: Green Head
Little Coningham Beach
Little Musselroe Bay: Lyme Regis Lagoon
Little Musselroe Bay: northern end
Little Musselroe Bay: Tree Point area
Little Peggs Beach
Little Swanport: Saltworks Beach
Louisa Bay
Low Head: East Beach
Low Head (unlocalised)
Lymington: Copper Alley Bay

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M-Z Localities for Atactodea erycinaea

Maria Island: Chinamans Bay
Maria Island: Chinamans Creek
Maria Island: Darlington Bay
Maria Island: Oyster Bay
Marion Bay: Bream Creek foreshore
Marion Bay: northern beaches
Marion Bay (unlocalised)
Middleton: foreshore
Monk Bay
Mortimer Bay: Gorringes Beach
Murdunna: Duck Creek Beach
Murdunna: Sommers Beach
Musselroe Point
Narawntapu: Bakers Beach
North Bruny Island: Barnes Bay
North Bruny Island: Ford Bay
North Bruny Island: Great Bay: Smoothys Point
North Bruny Island: Killora Bay
North Bruny Island: Nebraska Beach
North Bruny Island: Quarantine Bay
North Bruny Island: Simmonds Bay
North coast of Tasmania (unlocalised)
Nubeena: Parsons Bay
Nubeena: White Beach
Ocean Beach
Orford: Millingtons Beach
Orford: Spring Beach
Orford (unlocalised)
Peggs Beach: eastern end
Peggs Beach: western end
Petcheys Bay
Pirates Bay (unlocalised)
Port Arthur: Denmans Cove
Port Arthur: Stewarts Bay
Port Cygnet: Sandrock Bay
Port Davey: Bond Bay
Port Latta: Crayfish Creek
Port Sorell: beach
Port Sorell (unlocalised)
Premaydena: Impression Bay
Primrose Beach to Carlton Bluff
Randalls Bay
Rheban Beach
Robbins Island: Ransonnet Bay
Rocky Cape: foreshore N of Picnic Beach
Rocky Cape: Picnic Beach & rocks to S
Rokeby Beach
Saltwater River: Coal Mines beach
Saltwater River (unlocalised)
Sandy Bay: Nutgrove Beach
Shearwater: Freers Beach
Sloping Lagoon: Lagoon Beach
Sloping Main Beach
Smithton: Duck Bay: Picnic Point
Smithton: Duck River mouth
Smithton: Perkins Island
Snug Beach
Somerset: foreshore
South Arm: Pigeon Holes
South Bruny Island: Alonnah Beach
South Bruny Island: Alonnah: Sunset Bay
South Bruny Island: Butlers Beach
South Bruny Island: Cloudy Bay Lagoon
South Bruny Island: Cloudy Beaches: western beach
South Bruny Island: Great Taylors Bay
South Bruny Island: Old Jetty Beach
South Bruny Island: Old Jetty Beach: beaches to N
South Bruny Island: Simpsons Bay: southern end
South coast of Tasmania (unlocalised)
Southport Bluff: beach
Stanley: Anthony Beach
Stanley: East Inlet
Stanley: foreshore
Stanley: Godfreys Beach
Stanley: Green Hills: West Inlet entrance
Stanley: Tatlows Beach
Stanley: West Inlet
Strahan: Ocean Beach
Tamar River: Bell Bay: Deceitful Cove
Tamar River: Kelso: foreshore
Tamar River: Swan Bay
Taroona: Alum Cliffs
Taroona Beach
Tasmania (unlocalised)
Tinderbox Beach
Tomahawk Beach
Ulverstone (unlocalised)
Verona Sands
Walker Island
Woodbridge: Fleurtys Bay & Point
Woodbridge: foreshore & Birchs Point
Wykeholm Point & Bay
Wynyard: Inglis River mouth

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