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Molluscs of Tasmania

Littorinidae – Lacuninae: Bembicium nanum (Lamarck, 1822) (‘striped conniwink’)

Synonym(s): nanum Lamarck, 1822 acuminatus Wood, 1828 planus Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 australis Gray, 1839 pictum Philippi, 1846 crassa Dunker, 1861.

Typical shell-length 15 mm. Always bears narrow, oblique, dark stripes. Apex of shell often worn. Lives intertidally amongst rocks and seaweed, especially on more exposed shores. Native. Endemic to southern and eastern Australia (QLD, NSW, TAS, VIC and SA). In Tasmanian waters, this is a widespread and common species.

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda – Sorbeoconcha
Order: Hypsogastropoda – Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Littorinoidea
Family: Littorinidae
Subfamily: Lacuninae
Genus: Bembicium

A-L Localities for Bembicium nanum

Arthur River: Australia Point
Arthur River: Couta Rocks
Arthur River: Sarah Anne Rocks
Bangor: Lagoon Bay
Bangor: Two Mile Beach
Bay of Fires: Break Yoke Beach to Pebbly Beach
Beaumaris: Shelly Point
Beechford: foreshore
Beerbarrel Beach
Bellingham
Bicheno
Bicheno: Cod Rock
Bicheno: Courland Bay
Bicheno: Diamond Island
Bicheno: Redbill Beach
Bicheno: Rice Beach
Bicheno: Waubs Beach
Binalong Bay
Binalong Bay: beach
Binalong Bay: Dora Point
Binalong Bay: gulches
Binalong Bay: Jeanneret Beach
Blackman Bay: Little Chinaman Bay
Blackmans Bay
Black River Beach: northern end
Black River Beach: southern end
Boat Harbour
Boat Harbour: beach
Boat Harbour: Western Bay
Boltons Beach
Bridport: Adams Beach
Bridport: beach
Bridport: East Sandy Point
Bridport: Lades Beach
Bridport (unlocalised)
Bruny Island: E coast (unlocalised)
Burnie: Blythe Heads & estuary
Burnie: foreshore
Burnie: Sulphur Creek
Calverts Beach & Goats Bluff
Camdale: beach
Cape Barren Island: Battery Bay
Cape Barren Island: Burgess Bay
Cape Barren Island: Kenneth Point
Cape Barren Island: Nautilus Cove
Cape Barren Island: Neds Point
Cape Barren Island: Rooks River mouth
Cape Barren Island: Thunder & Lightning Bay
Cape Barren Island: Tinkers Gut
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
Chain of Lagoons: Four Mile Creek: beach
Chain of Lagoons: Piccaninny Point
Clarke Island: Allens Point: beach to west
Clarke Island: Black Point
Clarke Island: Black Point – beach to N
Clarke Island: Black Point – beach to S
Clarke Island: Dip Point to Black Rocks
Clarke Island: Kangaroo Bay to Seal Point
Clarke Island: Maclaines Bay
Clarke Island: South Head
Clarke Island: Spike Bay
Clayton: foreshore
Clifton Beach: western end
Cockle Creek Bay
Coles Bay: Bluestone Bay
Coles Bay: foreshore
Coles Bay: Gravelly Beach & Sleepy Bay
Coles Bay: Honeymoon Bay
Coles Bay: Muirs Beach
Coles Bay: Parsons Cove
Coles Bay: Richardsons Beach
Coles Bay (unlocalised)
Conical Harbour
Coningham Beach
Coningham: foreshore
Connellys Bay
Cooee Beach
Cremorne: foreshore
Croppies Beach: northern end
Davey River: Carvers Point
Deephole Bay
Denison Beach: Porch Rocks
Denison Beach: rocks at southern end
Denison Beach (unlocalised)
Devonport: Bluff Beach
Devonport: Coles Beach
Devonport: Don Heads
Devonport: Mersey River
Devonport: Mussel Rock
Devonport (unlocalised)
Dianas Beach (unlocalised)
Dodges Ferry: Okines Beach
Douglas River: beach
Dover: beach
Dover: Kents Beach
Dover: Roaring Bay Beach
Dunalley: beach
Dunalley (unlocalised)
Eaglehawk Neck: eastern side
Earlham: foreshore
East Devonport: beach & breakwater
East Devonport: Berth 1
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: North Point
East Kangaroo Island (unlocalised)
East Ulverstone
East Ulverstone: Buttons Beach
East Wynyard: beach
Eddystone Point: Picnic Corner
Eddystone Point: Purdon Bay
Eddystone Point (unlocalised)
Edgcumbe Beach
Falmouth: foreshore
Falmouth: Mariposa Beach
Flinders Island: Arthur Bay: Long Point
Flinders Island: Badger Corner
Flinders Island: Beach S of Big River Road
Flinders Island: Big River Cove
Flinders Island: Boat Harbour Beach
Flinders Island: Castle Rock beach
Flinders Island: Emita: foreshore
Flinders Island: Emita: Old Jetty Beach
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: Northeast River: mouth
Flinders Island: Palana Beach
Flinders Island: Patriarch Beach
Flinders Island: Port Davies & Cave Beach
Flinders Island: Sawyers Bay
Flinders Island: Tanners Bay
Flinders Island: Tanners Bay: Pine Scrub
Flinders Island: The Dock
Flinders Island: Trousers Point
Flinders Island: Trousers Point: beach
Fortescue Bay
Franklin Sound area
Frederick Henry Bay: Sloping Island
Freycinet Peninsula: Bryans Beach
Freycinet Peninsula: Cooks Beach
Freycinet Peninsula: Hazards Beach
Freycinet Peninsula (unlocalised)
Freycinet Peninsula: Wineglass Bay
Friendly Beaches
Garden Island Sands
Georges Bay: Blanche Point
Georges Bay: Burns Bay
Georges Bay: Moulting Bay (unlocalised)
Georges Bay: St Helens: foreshore
Georges Bay: St Helens (unlocalised)
Goat Island: foreshore of island and nearby mainland
Goose Island
Granville Harbour
Great Dog Island: beaches in NE
Great Musselroe Bay
Greenes 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
Howden: foreshore
Hunter Island: Cave Bay
Hunter Island (unlocalised)
Kettering foreshore
Kettering: Oyster Cove
King Island: Cape Wickham: foreshore to E
King Island: Cooper Bluff
King Island: Disappointment Bay
King Island: E coast (unlocalised)
King Island: Grassy
King Island: Grassy Harbour
King Island: Naracoopa: foreshore
King Island: Porky Beach
King Island: Sea Elephant Bay: Blowhole
King Island: Surprise Bay
King Island (unlocalised)
King Island: Victoria Cove
King Island: Yellow Rock Beach
Kingston 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: Bellbuoy Beach
Low Head: East Beach
Low Head: Lagoon Beach
Low Head (unlocalised)
Lulworth: Tam O”Shanter Bay
Lymington: Drip Beach

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M-Z Localities for Bembicium nanum

Margate: Dru Point & Nierinna Creek mouth
Maria Island: Darlington Bay
Maria Island: Encampment Cove
Maria Island: Fossil Cliffs
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
Marion Bay: northern beaches
Marion Bay (unlocalised)
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
Monk Bay
Montagu: beach
Mortimer Bay: Gorringes Beach
Murdunna: Sommers Beach
Musselroe: Cape Naturaliste
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
Ninepin Point
North Bruny Island: Apollo Bay
North Bruny Island: Barnes Bay
North Bruny Island: Dennes Point
North Bruny Island: Ford Bay
North Bruny Island: Killora Bay
North Bruny Island: Killora: Rat Bay
North Bruny Island: Nebraska Beach
North Bruny Island: Roberts Point
North Bruny Island (unlocalised)
Northdown Beach
North West coast of Tasmania (unlocalised)
Nubeena: Roaring Beach
Nubeena: White Beach
Okehampton Bay (unlocalised)
Opossum Bay: The Spit & Shelly Beach
Orford: East Shelly Beach
Orford: Emerald Beach
Orford: Luther Point
Orford: Millingtons Beach
Orford: Raspins Beach
Orford: Shelly Beach (unlocalised)
Orford: Spring Beach
Orford: West Shelly Beach
Outer Sister Island
Peggs Beach (unlocalised)
Peggs Beach: western end
Penguin: beach
Penguin: Johnsons Beach
Penguin: Lonah & Lodders Point
Penguin Point
Penguin to Ulverstone: foreshore
Penguin (unlocalised)
Penguin: Watcombe Beach
Pipers Head
Pirates Bay: Fossil Island
Pirates Bay (unlocalised)
Planters Beach to Fishers Point
Point Sorell and foreshore to SW
Point Sorell: Margaret Rocks
Port Arthur: Safety Cove
Port Cygnet: Cray Point
Port Cygnet: Sandrock Bay
Port Davey: Bond Bay
Port Latta: Brickmakers Beach
Port Latta: Cowrie Point
Port Sorell: beach
Port Sorell (unlocalised)
Primrose Beach to Carlton Bluff
Primrose Sands
Ralphs Bay (unlocalised)
Randalls Bay
Ransons Beach
Rheban Beach
Robbins Island: East Beach
Robbins Island: Marys Island area
Robbins Island: Ransonnet Bay
Rocky Cape: Anniversary Bay
Rocky Cape: Burgess Cove
Rocky Cape: Castle Rock Bay
Rocky Cape: Cathedral Rocks Bay
Rocky Cape: Cave Bay
Rocky Cape: Forwards Beach
Rocky Cape: Mary Anne Cove area
Rocky Cape: northern coves
Rocky Cape: Picnic Beach & rocks to S
Rocky Cape (unlocalised)
Rokeby Beach
Sandy Bay: Nutgrove Beach
Scamander: Wrinklers Beach
Schouten Island: Crocketts Bay
Schouten Island: Moreys Bay
Schouten Island: Sandspit Point
Seymour Beach: northern end
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
South Arm: Fort Beach
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay: southern end
South Bruny Island: Alonnah Beach
South Bruny Island: Alonnah: Sunset Bay
South Bruny Island: Cloudy Beaches: eastern beach
South Bruny Island: Great Taylors Bay
South Bruny Island: Neck Beach: Blighs Rocks
South Bruny Island: Sheepwash Bay
South Bruny Island: Simpsons Bay
South coast of Tasmania (unlocalised)
South Croppies Point
South East coast of Tasmania (unlocalised)
Southport
Stanley: Anthony Beach
Stanley: Cable Station beach
Stanley: Circular Head
Stanley: Cow Rock beach
Stanley: East Inlet
Stanley: foreshore
Stanley: Godfreys Beach
Stanley: Green Hills: West Inlet entrance
Stanley: Halfmoon Bay
Stanley: Tatlows Beach
Stanley (unlocalised)
Stanley: West Inlet
St Helens Point
Strahan: Cape Sorell
Swansea: Coswell Beach
Swansea: Cressy Beach
Swansea: Jubilee Beach
Swansea: Kelvedon Beach
Swansea: Kelvedon Beach: Shelly Point
Swansea: Kennedia Beach
Swansea: Lisdillon Beach
Swansea: Spiky Beach
Swansea (unlocalised)
Swanwick: foreshore
Tamar River: Kelso: foreshore
Taroona: Alum Cliffs
Taroona Beach
Tasmania (unlocalised)
The Gardens: beach
The Gardens: Coffeys Gulch
The Gardens: Cosy Corner
The Gardens: Mateys Gulch to Gardens Lagoon
The Gardens: Seatons Cove
The Gardens: Swimcart Beach
Three Hummock Island: Coulomb Bay
Three Hummock Island: Mermaid Bay
Three Hummock Island: Ranger Retreat
Three Hummock Island: Rape Bay
Three Hummock Island: Sandy Spit
Three Hummock Island: Spiers Bay: Spiers Nook
Three Hummock Island: Three Gullies Bay
Three Hummock Island: Three Gullies Bay area
Three Hummock Island: Three Gullies Bay: northern end
Three Hummock Island: Three Gullies Bay: southern end
Tinderbox Beach
Tomahawk Beach
Trial Harbour
Trial Harbour area
Turners Beach
Waterhouse Beach
Waterhouse Island
Waterhouse Point
West Ulverstone: foreshore
West Ulverstone: Picnic Point: beach to W
Weymouth: beach
Woodbridge: Birchs Bay & Yellow Point
Woodbridge: foreshore & Birchs Point
Woolnorth: Davisons Bay
Woolnorth: Valley Bay
Woolnorth: Woolnorth Point
Wykeholm Point & Bay
Wynyard: Fossil Bluff
Wynyard: Inglis River mouth
Wynyard (unlocalised)

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