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Molluscs of Tasmania

Trochidae – Monodontinae: Diloma concameratum (W. Wood, 1828) (‘tessellated top-shell’)

Synonym(s): concameratum Wood, 1828.

Typical shell-length 25 mm. Tessellated patterning characteristic, but dominant colour may be black, yellow or off-white. Lives intertidally amongst rocks and seaweed, especially on moderately sheltered shores. Native. Endemic to southeastern and southwestern Australia (NSW, TAS, VIC, SA and WA). In Tasmanian waters, this is a widespread and often common species.

Classification

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

A-L Localities for Diloma concameratum

Ansons Bay
Arthur River: Australia Point
Arthur River: Couta Rocks
Arthur River: Sarah Anne Rocks
Arthur River: Sundown Point
Bangor: Lagoon Bay
Bangor: Tasman Bay
Bangor: Watsons Bay
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
Bicheno: Waubs Gulch
Binalong Bay
Binalong Bay: Dora Point
Binalong Bay: gulches
Blackman Bay: Little Chinaman Bay
Blackman Bay: Long Spit: bay to E
Blackman Bay: near mouth of Blackman Rivulet
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: Sulphur Creek
Burnie (unlocalised)
Camdale: beach
Cape Barren Island: Battery Bay
Cape Barren Island: Bungs Beach
Cape Barren Island: Kenneth Point
Cape Barren Island: Kenneth Point: foreshore to E
Cape Barren Island: Kent Bay
Cape Barren Island: Key Island Bay
Cape Barren Island: Neds Point
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: Park Beach
Chain of Lagoons: Four Mile Creek: beach
Chain of Lagoons: Piccaninny Point
Charlotte Cove
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: Spike Bay
Clarke Island (unlocalised)
Clayton: foreshore
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
Cox Bight (unlocalised)
Croppies Beach: northern end
Curtis Island
Davey River: Carvers Point
Deadmans Bay
Deal Island (unlocalised)
Deephole Bay
Denison Beach: rocks at southern end
D’Entrecasteaux Channel: Partridge Island: eastern side
D’Entrecasteaux Channel (unlocalised)
Devonport: Bluff Beach
Devonport: Coles Beach
Devonport: Don Heads
Devonport: Mersey River
Devonport: Mussel Rock
Devonport: Paradise Cove (unlocalised)
Dianas Beach (unlocalised)
Dodges Ferry: Okines Beach
Dodges Ferry: Red Ochre Beach
Dover: beach
Dover: Roaring Bay Beach
Dover (unlocalised)
Dunalley Bay
Dunalley: beach
Dunalley (unlocalised)
Eaglehawk Neck: eastern side
Eaglehawk Neck: western side
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: North Point
East Kangaroo Island (unlocalised)
East Ulverstone
East Ulverstone: Buttons Beach
East Wynyard: beach
Eddystone Point: Picnic Corner
Eddystone Point (unlocalised)
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: 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: Lillies Bay
Flinders Island: Northeast River: mouth
Flinders Island: Palana Beach
Flinders Island: Parrys Bay (unlocalised)
Flinders Island: Patriarch Beach
Flinders Island: Port Davies & Cave Beach
Flinders Island: Sawyers Bay
Flinders Island: Sleepy Beach
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)
Flinders Island: Whitemark Beach
Fortescue Bay
Freycinet Peninsula: Bryans Beach
Freycinet Peninsula: Cooks Beach
Freycinet Peninsula (unlocalised)
Freycinet Peninsula: Wineglass Bay
Georges Bay: Blanche Point
Georges Bay: Burns Bay
Georges Bay: St Helens: foreshore
Georges Bay: St Helens (unlocalised)
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: main beach
Greens Beach: Nudists Beach
Hawley Beach
Hawley Beach: foreshore towards Point Sorell
Hellyer Beach
Herbies Landing
Herlihys Bay: coast to E
Hogan Island
Howden: foreshore
Hunter Island: Cave Bay
Hunter Island (unlocalised)
Huon Island
Ida Bay (unlocalised)
Kettering foreshore
Kettering: Oyster Cove
Kettering: Trial Bay
King Island: British Admiral Beach
King Island: Cape Wickham
King Island: Cape Wickham: foreshore to E
King Island: Cataraqui Point
King Island: City of Melbourne Bay
King Island: Colliers Beach
King Island: Currie Harbour
King Island: Disappointment Bay
King Island: Ettrick Beach
King Island: Fitzmaurice Bay
King Island: Grassy
King Island: Grassy Harbour
King Island: Grassy Harbour: Sandblow Bay
King Island: Lavinia Beach: beach nr Lake Martha Lavinia
King Island: Naracoopa: foreshore
King Island: Porky Beach
King Island: Red Hut Point
King Island: Seal Point
King Island: Stokes Point: Gulchway
King Island: Surprise Bay
King Island (unlocalised)
King Island: Victoria Cove
King Island: W coast
King Island: Yellow Rock Beach
Kingston Beach
Koonya: Shelly Beach
Lagoon River: mouth
Lat -40.5S Long 148.18E Kangaroo Bay, Clarke Island, Furneaux Group, Banks Strait
Lauderdale: Bambra Reef
Lauderdale: Roches Beach
Lauderdale: Seven Mile Beach
Leith: foreshore
Leith: Lillico Beach
Lime Bay
Lime Bay: Black Rock: beach
Lime Bay: Green Head
Little Chalky Island
Little Musselroe Bay: Lyme Regis Lagoon
Little Musselroe Bay: northern end
Little Musselroe Bay: Tree Point area
Little Swanport: Saltworks Beach
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 Diloma concameratum

Maatsuyker Island
Macquarie Harbour: Kelly Basin
Maria Island: Bloodstone Point
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: Riedlé Bay: McRaes Isthmus
Maria Island: Shoal Bay: McRaes Isthmus
Maria Island: Trigonia Corner
Marion Bay: Bream Creek foreshore
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
Midway Point (unlocalised)
Monk Bay
Montagu: beach
Mulcahy Bay
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
New Harbour
North Bruny Island: Apollo Bay
North Bruny Island: Barnes Bay
North Bruny Island: Cape Queen Elizabeth
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: Quarantine Bay
North Bruny Island: Roberts Point
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: Raspins Beach
Orford: Spring Beach
Orford (unlocalised)
Orford: West Shelly Beach
Outer Sister Island
Passage Island
Penguin: beach
Penguin: Johnsons Beach
Penguin: Lonah & Lodders Point
Penguin Point
Penguin to Ulverstone: foreshore
Penguin: Watcombe Beach
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: Ladies Bay
Port Arthur: Little Possum Beach
Port Arthur: Point Puer & beach
Port Arthur: Safety Cove
Port Arthur (unlocalised)
Port Cygnet: Cray Point
Port Davey: Bond Bay
Port Davey: Breaksea Islands
Port Esperance: Stringers Cove
Port Latta: Brickmakers Beach
Port Latta: Cowrie Point
Port Sorell: beach
Premaydena: Impression Bay
Primrose Beach to Carlton Bluff
Primrose Sands
Randalls Bay
Ransons Beach
Rheban Beach
Robbins Island: Cape Elie
Robbins Island: East Beach
Robbins Island: Marys Island area
Rocky Boat Inlet
Rocky Cape: Anniversary Bay
Rocky Cape: Burgess Cove
Rocky Cape: Castle Rock Bay
Rocky Cape: Cave Bay
Rocky Cape: foreshore N of Picnic 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: 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: Black Jack Point
Smiths Gulch
Snug Beach
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: Alonnah Beach
South Bruny Island: Alonnah: Sunset Bay
South Bruny Island: Butlers Beach
South Bruny Island: Cloudy Beaches: eastern beach
South Bruny Island: Cloudy Beaches: western beach
South Bruny Island: Great Taylors Bay
South Bruny Island: Hopwood Beach
South Bruny Island: Lighthouse Bay
South Bruny Island: Little Taylors Bay
South Bruny Island: Mickeys Bay
South Bruny Island: Old Jetty Beach
South Bruny Island: Old Jetty Beach: beaches to N
South Bruny Island: Quarries Bay
South Bruny Island: Sheepwash Bay
South Bruny Island: Simpsons Bay
South Cape Bay (unlocalised)
South Cape Rivulet: mouth
South coast of Tasmania (unlocalised)
South Croppies Point
Southport
Southport Bluff: beach
Southport: Roaring Beach
Stanley: Anthony Beach
Stanley: Circular Head
Stanley: foreshore
Stanley: Godfreys Beach
Stanley: Green Hills: West Inlet entrance
Stanley: Halfmoon Bay
Stanley: Tatlows Beach
Stanley (unlocalised)
Stephens Bay
St Helens Point
Strahan: Cape Sorell
Stumpys Bay (unlocalised)
Swansea: Kelvedon Beach
Swansea: Kelvedon Beach: Shelly Point
Swansea: Lisdillon Beach
Swansea: Spiky Beach
Swansea (unlocalised)
Swanwick: foreshore
Tamar River: Clarence Point: foreshore
Tamar River: George Town: foreshore
Tamar River: George Town (unlocalised)
Tamar River: Kelso: foreshore
Tamar River: Middle Arm
Tamar River: Middle Arm: Shag Head
Tamar River: Rosevears: foreshore
Taroona: Alum Cliffs
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: Mermaid Bay
Three Hummock Island: Ranger Retreat
Three Hummock Island: Rape Bay
Three Hummock Island: Three Gullies Bay: northern end
Three Hummock Island (unlocalised)
Tinderbox Beach
Tinderbox: Fishermans Haul
Tomahawk Beach
Trial Harbour
Trial Harbour area
Tunnel Bay
Turners Beach
Ulverstone (unlocalised)
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
Woodbridge: Fleurtys Bay & Point
Woodbridge: Flowerpot
Woodbridge: foreshore & Birchs Point
Woolnorth: Davisons Bay
Woolnorth: Valley Bay
Woolnorth: Woolnorth Point
Wykeholm Point & Bay
Wynyard: Fossil Bluff
Wynyard (unlocalised)

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