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Molluscs of Tasmania

Nacellidae: Cellana solida (Blainville, 1825) (‘orange-edged limpet’)

Synonym(s): solida Blainville, 1825 rubraurantiaca Blainville, 1825 limbata Philippi, 1849.

Typical shell-length 65 mm. Lives intertidally attached to rocks, especially on exposed shores. Native. Endemic to southeastern Australia (TAS, VIC and SA). In Tasmanian waters, this is a widespread and common species.

Classification
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Patellogastropoda
Order: Patellogastropoda
Superfamily: Nacelloidea
Family: Nacellidae
Genus: Cellana
A-L Localities for Cellana solida
Ansons Bay
Arthur River: Couta Rocks
Arthur River: Nelson Bay
Arthur River: Sarah Anne Rocks
Bangor: Lagoon Bay
Bangor: Tasman Bay
Bangor: Two Mile Beach
Bangor: Watsons Bay
Beechford: foreshore
Beerbarrel Beach
Bellingham
Bicheno
Bicheno: Courland Bay
Bicheno: Diamond Island
Bicheno: Redbill Beach
Bicheno: Rice Beach
Bicheno: Waubs Beach
Binalong Bay
Binalong Bay: Dora Point
Binalong Bay: gulches
Blackman Bay: Little Chinaman Bay
Blackmans Bay
Boat Harbour
Boat Harbour: beach
Boltons Beach
Bridport: Adams Beach
Bridport: beach
Bridport: East Sandy Point
Bridport: Lades Beach
Bridport (unlocalised)
Bruny Island: E coast (unlocalised)
Bruny Island: Neck Beach
Bruny Island (unlocalised)
Burnie: Blythe Heads & estuary
Burnie: Sulphur Creek
Calverts Beach & Goats Bluff
Cape Barren Island: Battery Bay
Cape Barren Island: Burgess Bay
Cape Barren Island: Kenneth Point
Cape Barren Island: Kent Bay
Cape Barren Island: Key Island Bay
Cape Barren Island: Munro Bay
Cape Barren Island: Neds Point
Cape Barren Island: Petticoat 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: McIntyres 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: Moriarty Bay
Clarke Island: South Head
Clarke Island: Spike Bay
Clayton: foreshore
Clifton Beach (unlocalised)
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
Curtis Island
Deal Island (unlocalised)
Denison Beach: rocks at southern end
Denison Beach (unlocalised)
D’Entrecasteaux Channel: Partridge Island: eastern side
Devonport: Bluff Beach
Devonport: Coles Beach
Devonport: Don Heads
Devonport: Mersey River
Devonport: Paradise Cove (unlocalised)
Dodges Ferry: Red Ochre Beach
Douglas River: beach
Dover: beach
Dover: Kents Beach
Dover: Roaring Bay Beach
Dover (unlocalised)
Dunalley (unlocalised)
Eaglehawk Neck: eastern 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 Ulverstone
East Ulverstone: Buttons Beach
East Wynyard: beach
Eddystone Point: Picnic Corner
Eddystone Point (unlocalised)
Edgcumbe Beach
Falmouth: foreshore
Falmouth: Mariposa Beach
Flinders Island: Big River Cove
Flinders Island: Boat Harbour Beach
Flinders Island: Emita: foreshore
Flinders Island: Emita: Old Jetty Beach
Flinders Island: Foochow Beach
Flinders Island: Fotheringate Bay
Flinders Island: Fotheringate Beach: southern end
Flinders Island: Holloway Point
Flinders Island: Killiecrankie Bay (unlocalised)
Flinders Island: Killiecrankie: foreshore
Flinders Island: Lady Barron: Fisher Island
Flinders Island: Lady Barron (unlocalised)
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
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M-Z Localities for Cellana solida
Maatsuyker Island
Macquarie Harbour: Kelly Basin
Maria Island: Coxswain Creek: foreshore
Maria Island: Darlington Bay
Maria Island: Encampment Cove
Maria Island: Fossil Cliffs
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
Maria Island (unlocalised)
Marion Bay: Bream Creek foreshore
Marion Bay: northern beaches
Marion Bay (unlocalised)
Marrawah: Green Point Beach
Marrawah (unlocalised)
Marrawah: West Point
Mayfield Beach to Mayfield Point
Mayfield Point to Little Christmas Island
Mercury Passage: Darlington Bay
Mulcahy Bay
Murdunna: Sommers Beach
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: Cape Queen Elizabeth
North Bruny Island: Dennes Point
North Bruny Island: Killora Bay
North Bruny Island: Killora: Rat Bay
North Bruny Island: Miles Beach
North Bruny Island: Nebraska Beach
North Bruny Island: Quarantine Bay
North Bruny Island: Roberts Point
North East coast of Tasmania (unlocalised)
Nubeena: Roaring Beach
Nubeena: White Beach
Orford: East Shelly Beach
Orford: Emerald Beach
Orford: Luther Point
Orford: Millingtons Beach
Orford: Shelly Beach (unlocalised)
Orford: Spring Beach
Orford (unlocalised)
Outer Sister Island
Passage Island
Peggs Beach (unlocalised)
Penguin: beach
Penguin: Johnsons Beach
Penguin: Lonah & Lodders Point
Penguin Point
Penguin: Watcombe Beach
Pipers Head
Pirates Bay: Fossil Island
Pirates Bay: The Blowhole
Pirates Bay (unlocalised)
Planters Beach to Fishers Point
Port Arthur: Denmans Cove
Port Arthur: Dog Bark Beach
Port Arthur: Point Puer & beach
Port Arthur: Safety Cove
Port Arthur: Stewarts Bay
Port Arthur (unlocalised)
Port Cygnet: Cray Point
Port Davey: Bond Bay
Port Esperance: Stringers Cove
Port Latta: Brickmakers Beach
Port Latta: Cowrie Point
Port Sorell (unlocalised)
Primrose Beach to Carlton Bluff
Primrose Sands
Randalls Bay
Ransons Beach
Recherche Bay
Rheban Beach
Robbins Island: Cape Elie
Robbins Island: East Beach
Robbins Island: Marys Island area
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
Sandy Cape
Scamander (unlocalised)
Schouten Island: Crocketts Bay
Schouten Island: Moreys Bay
Schouten Island: Sandspit Point
Seymour Beach: northern end
Shearwater: Freers Beach
Ship Stern Bluff
Sisters Beach
Sloping Lagoon: Lagoon Beach
Sloping Main Beach
Sloping Main: Black Jack Point
Somerset: foreshore
South Arm: Fort Beach
South Arm: Hope Beach: southern end
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay: Cemetery Bluff
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay: Grass Point
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay: southern end
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay: Two Tree Point
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay (unlocalised)
South Bruny Island: Alonnah Beach
South Bruny Island: Alonnah: Sunset Bay
South Bruny Island: Butlers Beach
South Bruny Island: Cloudy Beaches: eastern beach
South Bruny Island: Great Taylors Bay
South Bruny Island: Hen & Chickens Rocks: foreshore to E
South Bruny Island: Hopwood Beach
South Bruny Island: Lighthouse Bay
South Bruny Island: Mickeys Bay
South Bruny Island: Neck Beach: Blighs Rocks
South Bruny Island: Old Jetty Beach
South Bruny Island: Old Jetty Beach: beaches to N
South Bruny Island: Sheepwash Bay
South Bruny Island: Simpsons Bay
South Croppies Point
Southport
Southport: Hythe Beach
Southport: Roaring Beach
Stanley: Circular Head
Stanley: Cow Rock beach
Stanley: Godfreys Beach
Stanley: Halfmoon Bay
Stanley (unlocalised)
Stephens Bay
St Helens Point
Strahan: Cape Sorell
Stumpys Bay (unlocalised)
Surveyors Bay
Swansea: Coswell Beach
Swansea: Jubilee Beach
Swansea: Kelvedon Beach: Shelly Point
Swansea: Kennedia Beach
Swansea: Lisdillon Beach
Swansea: Spiky Beach
Swansea (unlocalised)
Swanwick: foreshore
Tamar River: Kelso: foreshore
Taroona Beach
Taroona: Dixons Beach
Tasmania (unlocalised)
Temma
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
The Gardens: Taylors Beach
Three Hummock Island: Burgess Point
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
Tinderbox Beach
Tinderbox: Bellendena: foreshore
Tinderbox: Fossil Cove
Tinderbox: Piersons Point
Tomahawk Beach
Trial Harbour
Trial Harbour area
Tunnel Bay
Turners Beach
Verona Sands
Walker Island
Waterhouse Island
Waterhouse Point
West Ulverstone: foreshore
West Ulverstone: Picnic Point: beach to W
Weymouth: beach
Woodbridge: Birchs Bay & Yellow Point
Woolnorth: Davisons Bay
Woolnorth: Valley Bay
Woolnorth: Woolnorth Point
Wykeholm Point & Bay
Wynyard: Fossil Bluff
Wynyard (unlocalised)
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