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Molluscs of Tasmania

Trochidae – Monodontinae: Austrocochlea constricta (Lamarck, 1822) (‘ribbed top-shell’)

Synonym(s): constricta Lamarck, 1822 trochlea Wood, 1828 zebra Menke, 1829 torri Cotton & Godfrey, 1934 obtusa Guiler, 1951 (non Dillwyn) (in part).

Typical shell-length 25 mm. Colour-patterning almost invariant. Lives intertidally on mud and among rocks, especially on sheltered shores. Native. Endemic to southeastern and southwestern Australia (NSW, TAS, VIC, SA and WA). In Tasmanian waters, this is a widespread and often abundant species.

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Subfamily: Monodontinae
Genus: Austrocochlea

A-L Localities for Austrocochlea constricta

Arthur River: Couta Rocks
Arthur River: Nelson Bay
Arthur River: Sarah Anne Rocks
Arthur River (unlocalised)
Bangor: Lagoon Bay
Bathurst Channel
Beaumaris: Shelly Point
Beechford: foreshore
Beerbarrel Beach
Bellingham
Bicheno
Bicheno: Waubs Beach
Blackman Bay: Boomer Bay
Blackman Bay: Little Chinaman Bay
Blackmans Bay
Black River Beach: northern end
Black River Beach: southern end
Boat Harbour
Boat Harbour: beach
Bridport: beach
Bridport: East Sandy Point
Bridport: Lades Beach
Bridport (unlocalised)
Bruny Island (unlocalised)
Burnie: Blythe Heads & estuary
Burnie: Sulphur Creek
Burnie (unlocalised)
Calverts Beach & Goats Bluff
Camdale: beach
Cape Barren Island: Battery Bay
Cape Barren Island: Bungs Beach
Cape Barren Island: Jamiesons Bay
Cape Barren Island: Kenneth Point
Cape Barren Island: Kenneth Point: foreshore to E
Cape Barren Island: Kent Bay
Cape Barren Island: Nautilus Cove
Cape Barren Island: Thunder & Lightning Bay
Cape Barren Island (unlocalised)
Cape Portland: Home Beach
Cape Portland: Lanoma Point
Cape Portland: Lemons Beach
Cape Portland: Petal Point
Cape Portland: Roses Bay
Cape Portland (unlocalised)
Carlton Beach: Spectacle Island
Carlton: Park Beach
Charlotte Cove
Clarke Island: Allens Point: beach to west
Clarke Island: Black Point
Clarke Island: Black Point – beach to N
Clarke Island: Dip Point to Black Rocks
Clarke Island: Kangaroo Bay to Seal Point
Clarke Island: Maclaines Bay
Clarke Island: Spike Bay
Clayton: foreshore
Cockle Creek Bay
Coles Bay: foreshore
Coles Bay: Honeymoon Bay
Coles Bay: Parsons Cove
Coles Bay: Richardsons Beach
Coles Bay (unlocalised)
Coningham Beach
Coningham: foreshore
Connellys Bay
Cooee Beach
Cremorne: foreshore
Cremorne: Pipe Clay Lagoon
Croppies Beach: northern end
Croppies Point
Davey River: Carvers Point
D’Entrecasteaux Channel: Partridge Island: eastern side
Devonport: Bluff Beach
Devonport: Coles Beach
Devonport: Don Heads
Devonport: Mersey River
Devonport: Mussel Rock
Devonport: Paradise Cove (unlocalised)
Devonport (unlocalised)
Dodges Ferry: Okines Beach
Dover: beach
Dover: Kents Beach
Dover: Roaring Bay Beach
Dover (unlocalised)
Dunalley Bay
Dunalley: beach
Dunalley (unlocalised)
Eaglehawk Neck: eastern side
Eaglehawk Neck: western side
Earlham: foreshore
East Devonport: beach & breakwater
East Devonport: Moorland Beach
East Devonport: Moorland Point
East Devonport: Pardoe Beach
East Devonport: Pardoe Beach: The Water Rat
East Devonport: Pardoe Point
East Kangaroo Island: Laughtons Beach
East Kangaroo Island: North Point
East Kangaroo Island (unlocalised)
East Ulverstone
East Ulverstone: Buttons Beach
East Wynyard: beach
Eddystone Point (unlocalised)
Electrona: Peggys Beach
Flinders Island: Arthur Bay: Long Point
Flinders Island: Badger Corner
Flinders Island: Fotheringate Bay
Flinders Island: Fotheringate Beach: southern end
Flinders Island: Killiecrankie Bay (unlocalised)
Flinders Island: Killiecrankie: foreshore
Flinders Island: Lady Barron: Fisher Island
Flinders Island: Lady Barron: Watering Beach
Flinders Island: Lady Barron: Yellow Beaches
Flinders Island: Leeka: foreshore towards Twelve Hour Point
Flinders Island: Leeka: West End Beach
Flinders Island: Lillies Bay
Flinders Island: Palana Beach
Flinders Island: Parrys Bay: Double Corner
Flinders Island: Port Davies & Cave Beach
Flinders Island: Sawyers Bay
Flinders Island: Spences Reef
Flinders Island: Tanners Bay
Flinders Island: Tanners Bay: Pine Scrub
Flinders Island: The Dock
Flinders Island: Trousers Point
Flinders Island: Trousers Point: beach
Flinders Island (unlocalised)
Franklin Sound area
Frederick Henry Bay: Sloping Island
Freycinet Peninsula: Bryans Beach
Freycinet Peninsula: Cooks Beach
Freycinet Peninsula (unlocalised)
Friendly Beaches
Gannet Point
Garden Island Sands
Georges Bay: Moulting Bay (unlocalised)
Georges Bay: St Helens: foreshore
Glenorchy: Cornelian Bay
Goat Island: foreshore of island and nearby mainland
Goose Island
Gordon: Three Hut Point
Granville Harbour
Great Dog Island: beaches in NE
Great Musselroe Bay
Greenes Point
Greens Beach: Friend Point
Greens Beach: main beach
Greens Beach: Nudists Beach
Hawley Beach
Hawley Beach: foreshore towards Point Sorell
Hellyer Beach
Herbies Landing
Herlihys Bay: coast to E
Hobart: Sandy Bay: Long Beach to Blinking Billy Point
Hogan Island
Howden: foreshore
Howrah Beach
Hunter Island (unlocalised)
Huon Island
Ida Bay (unlocalised)
Kettering foreshore
Kettering: Oyster Cove
Kettering: Trial Bay
King Island: Cape Wickham: foreshore to E
King Island: Cataraqui Point
King Island: City of Melbourne Bay
King Island: Currie Harbour
King Island: E coast (unlocalised)
King Island: Ettrick Beach
King Island: Fitzmaurice Bay
King Island: Foreshore S of Currie
King Island: Grassy Harbour
King Island: Grassy Harbour: Sandblow Bay
King Island: Halfmoon Bay
King Island: Lavinia Beach: beach nr Lake Martha Lavinia
King Island: Naracoopa: foreshore
King Island: Pass River Bay
King Island: Porky Beach
King Island: Red Hut Point
King Island: Seal Bay: Black Point
King Island: Seal Point
King Island: Stokes Point: Gulchway
King Island: Surprise Bay
King Island (unlocalised)
King Island: Victoria Cove
King Island: Yellow Rock Beach
Kingston Beach
Koonya: Newmans Beach
Koonya: Shelly Beach
Lauderdale: Bambra Reef
Lauderdale: Ralphs Bay
Lauderdale: Roches Beach
Lauderdale: Seven Mile Beach
Leith: foreshore
Leith: Lillico Beach
Lewisham (unlocalised)
Lime Bay
Lime Bay: Black Rock: beach
Lime Bay: Green Head
Little Chalky Island
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
Lobster Point
Low Head: East Beach
Low Head: Lagoon Beach
Low Head (unlocalised)
Lulworth: Tam O”Shanter Bay
Lymington: Copper Alley Bay
Lymington: Drip Beach

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M-Z Localities for Austrocochlea constricta

Macquarie Harbour: Kelly Basin
Margate: Dru Point & Nierinna Creek mouth
Maria Island: Darlington Bay
Maria Island: Encampment Cove
Maria Island: Four Mile Beach
Maria Island: Gulls Nest Point
Maria Island: Hopground Beach
Maria Island: Howells Point & Painted Cliffs
Maria Island: Point Lesueur
Maria Island: Return Point
Maria Island: Shoal Bay: McRaes Isthmus
Maria Island: Trigonia Corner
Marion Bay: Bream Creek foreshore
Marrawah: Green Point
Marrawah: Green Point Beach
Marrawah (unlocalised)
Marrawah: West Point
Mayfield Beach to Mayfield Point
Mayfield Point to Little Christmas Island
Mercury Passage: Darlington Bay
Middleton: foreshore
Midway Point (unlocalised)
Monk Bay
Montagu: beach
Mortimer Bay: Gorringes Beach
Murdunna: Duck Creek Beach
Murdunna: foreshore
Murdunna: Sommers Beach
Musselroe Point
Narawntapu: Badger Beach
Narawntapu: Badger Head
Narawntapu: Bakers Beach
Narawntapu: Bakers Point & Springlawn Beach
Narawntapu: Copper Cove
Narawntapu: Griffiths Point
Narawntapu: Little Badger Head
Narawntapu: West Head
North Bruny Island: Apollo Bay
North Bruny Island: Barnes Bay
North Bruny Island: Dennes Point
North Bruny Island: Ford Bay
North Bruny Island: Great Bay: Smoothys Point
North Bruny Island: Killora Bay
North Bruny Island: Killora: Rat Bay
North Bruny Island: Little Fancy Bay
North Bruny Island: Nebraska Beach
North Bruny Island: Quarantine Bay
North Bruny Island: Roberts Point
North Bruny Island: Simmonds Bay
North Bruny Island (unlocalised)
Northdown Beach
Nubeena: Roaring Beach
Nubeena: White Beach
Opossum Bay: The Spit & Shelly Beach
Orford: East Shelly Beach
Orford: Emerald Beach
Orford: Luther Point
Orford: Millingtons Beach
Orford: Prosser River: mouth
Orford: Raspins Beach
Orford: Shelly Beach (unlocalised)
Orford (unlocalised)
Orford: West Shelly Beach
Passage Island
Peggs Beach: eastern end
Peggs Beach (unlocalised)
Peggs Beach: western end
Penguin: beach
Penguin: Johnsons Beach
Penguin: Lonah & Lodders Point
Penguin Point
Penguin to Ulverstone: foreshore
Penguin: Watcombe Beach
Petcheys Bay
Pipers Head
Pirates Bay: Fossil Island
Pirates Bay (unlocalised)
Pittwater Bluff: foreshore to W
Planters Beach to Fishers Point
Point Sorell and foreshore to SW
Point Sorell: Margaret Rocks
Port Arthur: Big Possum Beach
Port Arthur: Little Possum Beach
Port Arthur: Point Puer & beach
Port Arthur: Safety Cove
Port Arthur (unlocalised)
Port Cygnet: Cray Point
Port Cygnet: Sandrock Bay
Port Davey: Bond Bay
Port Davey: Hannant Inlet
Port Davey (unlocalised)
Port Esperance: Stringers Cove
Port Latta: Brickmakers Beach
Port Latta: Cowrie Point
Port Sorell: beach
Port Sorell (unlocalised)
Premaydena: Impression Bay
Primrose Beach to Carlton Bluff
Primrose Sands
Randalls Bay
Ransons Beach
Rheban Beach
Risdon foreshore
Robbins Island: Cape Elie
Robbins Island: East Beach
Robbins Island: Marys Island area
Robbins Island: Ransonnet Bay
Rocky Boat Inlet
Rocky Cape: Anniversary Bay
Rocky Cape: Burgess Cove
Rocky Cape: Castle Rock Bay
Rocky Cape: Cathedral Rocks Bay
Rocky Cape: Cave Bay
Rocky Cape: foreshore N of Picnic Beach
Rocky Cape: Forwards Beach
Rocky Cape: Mary Anne Cove area
Rocky Cape: northern coves
Rocky Cape: Picnic Beach & rocks to S
Rocky Cape (unlocalised)
Saltwater River: Coal Mines beach
Saltwater River (unlocalised)
Scamander (unlocalised)
Schouten Island: Sandspit Point
Shearwater: Freers Beach
Sisters Beach
Sloping Lagoon: Lagoon Beach
Sloping Main Beach
Sloping Main: Black Jack Point
Smithton: Duck River mouth
Snug Beach
Somerset: foreshore
Sorell: causeway
Sorell: Oaks Point
Sorell: Orielton Lagoon
South Arm: Fort Beach
South Arm: Pigeon Holes
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay: Cemetery Bluff
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay: Grass Point
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay: southern end
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: Great Taylors Bay
South Bruny Island: Little Taylors Bay
South Bruny Island: Mickeys Bay
South Bruny Island: Old Jetty Beach
South Bruny Island: Sheepwash Bay
South Bruny Island: Simpsons Bay
Southport
Southport Lagoon: southern end
Stanley: Anthony Beach
Stanley: Circular Head
Stanley: East Inlet
Stanley: foreshore
Stanley: Godfreys Beach
Stanley: Green Hills: West Inlet entrance
Stanley: Tatlows Beach
Stanley (unlocalised)
Stanley: West Inlet
St Helens Point
Strahan: Cape Sorell
Swansea: Jubilee Beach
Swansea: Kelvedon Beach
Swansea: Kelvedon Beach: Shelly Point
Swansea: Lisdillon Beach
Swansea: Spiky Beach
Swansea (unlocalised)
Swanwick: foreshore
Tamar River: Beauty Point: Inspection Head area
Tamar River: Bell Bay: Big Bay
Tamar River: Bell Bay: Deceitful Cove
Tamar River: Bell Bay: Donovans Bay
Tamar River: Bell Bay: power-station jetty
Tamar River: Bell Bay: Sawyers Point
Tamar River: Clarence Point: foreshore
Tamar River: George Town: She Oak Point area
Tamar River: George Town (unlocalised)
Tamar River: George Town: York Cove
Tamar River: Ilfraville: Redbill Point
Tamar River: Ilfraville: Sandy Beach
Tamar River: Kelso: foreshore
Tamar River: Long Reach
Tamar River: Middle Arm
Tamar River: Middle Arm: Shag Head
Tamar River: Rowella: West Bay
Tamar River: Rowella: Willmores Bluff
Taroona Beach
Taroona: Dixons Beach
Taroona: Hinsby Beach
Tasmania (unlocalised)
Temma
The Gardens: Cosy Corner
The Gardens: Swimcart Beach
Three Hummock Island: Ranger Retreat
Three Hummock Island: Rape Bay
Three Hummock Island: Three Gullies Bay: northern end
Tinderbox Beach
Tinderbox: Fishermans Haul
Tomahawk Beach
Trial Harbour area
Turners Beach
Ulverstone (unlocalised)
Verona Sands
Walker Island
West Ulverstone: foreshore
West Ulverstone: Picnic Point: beach to W
Weymouth: beach
Woodbridge: Birchs Bay & Yellow Point
Woodbridge: Fleurtys Bay & Point
Woodbridge: Flowerpot
Woodbridge: foreshore & Birchs Point
Woolnorth: Davisons Bay
Woolnorth: Woolnorth Point
Wykeholm Point & Bay
Wynyard: Fossil Bluff
Wynyard: Inglis River mouth
Wynyard (unlocalised)

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