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Molluscs of Tasmania

Trochidae – Fossarininae: Fossarina (Minopa) legrandi Petterd, 1879 (‘Legrand’s fossarina’)

Synonym(s): legrandi Petterd, 1879.

Typical shell-length 6.0 mm. Lives subtidally amongst rocks and seaweed. Native. Endemic to southeastern and southwestern Australia (NSW, TAS, VIC, SA and WA).

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Subfamily: Fossarininae
Genus: Fossarina

Localities for Fossarina legrandi

Bangor: Lagoon Bay
Bicheno: Cod Rock
Bicheno: Redbill Beach
Binalong Bay: beach
Blackmans Bay
Black River Beach: southern end
Burnie: Blythe Heads & estuary
Cape Barren Island (unlocalised)
Cape Portland: Home Beach
Cape Portland: Roses Bay
Cape Portland (unlocalised)
Carlton Beach: Spectacle Island
Carlton: Park Beach
Chain of Lagoons: Piccaninny Point
Clarke Island: Black Point
Conical Harbour
Curtis Island
Denison Beach: Porch Rocks
Devonport: Don Heads
Eaglehawk Neck: eastern side
Flinders Island: Fotheringate Beach: southern end
Flinders Island: Leeka: foreshore towards Twelve Hour Point
Flinders Island: Palana Beach
Flinders Island: Patriarch Inlet
Flinders Island: Trousers Point
Frederick Henry Bay: Sloping Island
Frederick Henry Bay (unlocalised)
Freycinet Peninsula: The Hazards
Freycinet Peninsula (unlocalised)
Friendly Beaches
Georges Bay: Blanche Point
Granville Harbour: coast to N
Greens Beach: main beach
Hunter Island (unlocalised)
King Island: Colliers Beach
King Island: Currie Harbour
King Island: Ettrick Beach
King Island: Fitzmaurice Bay
King Island: Halfmoon Bay
King Island: Little Porky Beach
King Island: Pass River Bay
King Island: Seal Point
King Island (unlocalised)
Kingston Beach
Lauderdale: Roches Beach
Lime Bay
Lime Bay: Green Head
Low Head: East Beach
Maria Island: Bloodstone Point
Maria Island: Darlington Bay
Maria Island: Fossil Cliffs
Maria Island: Howells Point & Painted Cliffs
Maria Island: Trigonia Corner
Narawntapu: Copper Cove
Okehampton Bay (unlocalised)
Orford: East Shelly Beach
Orford: Spring Beach
Orford: West Shelly Beach
Pirates Bay: middle rocks
Port Arthur: Denmans Cove
Port Davey: Whalers Cove
Port Latta: Cowrie Point
Port Sorell: beach
Rocky Boat Inlet
Seymour Beach: northern end
Sloping Lagoon: Lagoon Beach
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay: Cemetery Bluff
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay: Grass Point
South Bruny Island: Cloudy Beaches: eastern beach
Swanwick: foreshore
Tamar River: Kelso: foreshore
Taroona: Alum Cliffs
Taroona Beach
Taroona: Dixons Beach
Taroona: Hinsby Beach
Tasmania (unlocalised)
The Gardens: Coffeys Gulch
Tinderbox Beach
Triabunna: Plain Place Beach
Waterhouse Point
Woodbridge: foreshore & Birchs Point

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