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Molluscs of Tasmania

Nassariidae – Nassariinae: Nassarius (Niotha) pauperatus (Lamarck, 1822) (‘impoverished dog-whelk’)

Synonym(s): pauperatus Lamarck, 1822 australe Menke, 1843 lirella Reeve, 1853.

Typical shell-length 20 mm. Degree of dark banding varies greatly, as does adult size and degree of beading and ribbing. Lives intertidally on fine sand and mud, in sheltered environments. 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: Caenogastropoda – Sorbeoconcha
Order: Hypsogastropoda – Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Nassariidae
Subfamily: Nassariinae
Genus: Nassarius

A-L Localities for Nassarius pauperatus

Ansons Bay
Bathurst Channel: Schooner Cove
Beaumaris: Shelly Point
Bellingham
Binalong Bay
Binalong Bay: Dora Point
Blackman Bay: Boomer Bay
Blackman Bay: Little Chinaman Bay
Blackman Bay: Long Spit: bay to E
Blackman Bay: Porpoise Hole
Blackman Bay (unlocalised)
Black River Beach
Black River Beach: northern end
Black River Beach: southern end
Boat Harbour
Boltons Beach
Bridport: beach
Bridport: Lades Beach
Bridport (unlocalised)
Bruny Island (unlocalised)
Burnie: Blythe Heads & estuary
Cambridge: Barilla Bay
Cape Barren Island: Kenneth Point
Cape Barren Island: Neds Point
Cape Barren Island (unlocalised)
Cape Portland: Home Beach
Cape Portland: Lanoma Point
Cape Portland: Petal Point
Cape Portland: Roses Bay
Cape Portland (unlocalised)
Carlton Beach: Spectacle Island
Carlton: Park Beach
Catamaran (unlocalised)
Chain of Lagoons: Four Mile Creek: beach
Chain of Lagoons: McIntyres Beach
Charlotte Cove
Clayton: foreshore
Cockle Creek Bay
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
Cygnet: Nicholls Rivulet mouth
D’Entrecasteaux Channel (unlocalised)
Devonport: Bluff Beach
Devonport: Coles Beach
Devonport: Don Heads
Devonport: Mersey River
Devonport: Mussel Rock
Devonport: Paradise Cove (unlocalised)
Devonport: upper estuary
Dodges Ferry: Okines Beach
Douglas River: beach
Dover: beach
Dover: Roaring Bay Beach
Dover (unlocalised)
Dunalley Bay
Dunalley: beach
Eaglehawk Neck: western side
Earlham: foreshore
Earlham Lagoon
East Devonport: beach & breakwater
East Devonport: Berth 1
East Devonport: Moorland Beach
East Devonport: Moorland Point
East Devonport: Pardoe Beach
East Devonport: Pardoe Point
East Ulverstone
East Ulverstone: Buttons Beach
East Wynyard: beach
Eggs-and-Bacon Bay
Electrona: Peggys Beach
Falmouth: foreshore
Falmouth: Mariposa Beach
Flinders Island: Arthur Bay: Long Point
Flinders Island: Badger Corner
Flinders Island: Foochow Beach
Flinders Island: Fotheringate Bay
Flinders Island: Fotheringate Beach: southern end
Flinders Island: Killiecrankie Bay (unlocalised)
Flinders Island: Lady Barron: Watering Beach
Flinders Island: Lady Barron: Yellow Beaches
Flinders Island: Logan Lagoon
Flinders Island: Northeast River: mouth
Flinders Island: Parrys Bay: Double Corner
Flinders Island: Patriarch Beach
Flinders Island: Port Davies & Cave Beach
Flinders Island: Samphire Island
Flinders Island: Sawyers Bay
Flinders Island: Spences Reef
Flinders Island: Tanners Bay
Flinders Island: Tanners Bay: Pine Scrub
Flinders Island: The Dock
Flinders Island: White Beach to Dick Davey Shoal
Flinders Island: Whitemark Beach
Forth River: mouth
Freycinet Peninsula: Cooks Beach
Freycinet Peninsula: The Hazards
Freycinet Peninsula (unlocalised)
Freycinet Peninsula: Wineglass Bay
Garden Island Sands
Georges Bay: Akaroa: foreshore
Georges Bay: Burns Bay
Georges Bay: Humbug Point
Georges Bay: Moulting Bay (unlocalised)
Georges Bay: St Helens: foreshore
Georges Bay: St Helens (unlocalised)
Glenorchy: Cornelian Bay
Goat Island: foreshore of island and nearby mainland
Granville Harbour
Great Musselroe Bay
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: Battery Point: Marieville Esplanade
Hobart: Sandy Bay (unlocalised)
Howden: foreshore
Howrah Beach
Ida Bay (unlocalised)
Kettering foreshore
Kettering: Oyster Cove
Kettering: Trial Bay
Kettering (unlocalised)
King Island: Naracoopa: foreshore
Kingston Beach
Koonya: Newmans Beach
Koonya: Shelly Beach
Lauderdale: Ralphs Bay
Lauderdale: Roches Beach
Lauderdale: Seven Mile Beach
Leith: foreshore
Leith: Lillico Beach
Lewisham (unlocalised)
Lime Bay
Lime Bay: Black Rock: beach
Little Coningham Beach
Little Musselroe Bay: Tree Point area
Little Peggs Beach
Little Swanport: mouth
Little Swanport: Saltworks Beach
Low Head (unlocalised)
Lymington: Copper Alley Bay

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M-Z Localities for Nassarius pauperatus

Macquarie Harbour: Kelly Basin
Margate: Dru Point & Nierinna Creek mouth
Margate foreshore
Maria Island: Bloodstone Point
Maria Island: Chinamans Bay
Maria Island: Chinamans Creek
Maria Island: Encampment Cove
Maria Island: Four Mile Beach
Maria Island: Riedlé Bay: McRaes Isthmus
Maria Island: Shoal Bay: McRaes Isthmus
Maria Island: Trigonia Corner
Marion Bay: Bream Creek foreshore
Marion Bay: northern beaches
Marion Bay (unlocalised)
Mayfield Beach to Mayfield Point
Mayfield Point to Little Christmas Island
Middleton: foreshore
Midway Point (unlocalised)
Monk Bay
Montagu: beach
Mortimer Bay: Gorringes Beach
Moulting Lagoon: Pelican Bay
Murdunna: Duck Creek Beach
Murdunna: foreshore
Murdunna: Sommers Beach
Musselroe Point
Narawntapu: Bakers Beach
Narawntapu: Bakers Point & Springlawn Beach
Narawntapu: Griffiths Point
Narawntapu: Little Badger Head
North Bruny Island: Apollo Bay
North Bruny Island: Barnes Bay
North Bruny Island: Ford Bay
North Bruny Island: Great Bay: Smoothys Point
North Bruny Island: Killora Bay
North Bruny Island: Little Fancy Bay
North Bruny Island: Quarantine Bay
North Bruny Island: Roberts Point
North Bruny Island: Simmonds Bay
Northdown Beach
Nubeena: Parsons Bay
Nubeena: Roaring Beach
Nubeena: White Beach
Opossum Bay: The Spit & Shelly Beach
Orford: East Shelly Beach
Orford: Luther Point
Orford: Millingtons Beach
Orford: Prosser River: mouth
Orford: Raspins Beach
Orford: Shelly Beach (unlocalised)
Orford: Spring Beach
Orford (unlocalised)
Peggs Beach: eastern end
Peggs Beach (unlocalised)
Peggs Beach: western end
Penguin: Lonah & Lodders Point
Penguin Point
Penguin (unlocalised)
Petcheys Bay
Pipers Head
Pirates Bay (unlocalised)
Pittwater Bluff: foreshore to W
Pitt Water (unlocalised)
Port Arthur: Big Possum Beach
Port Arthur: Denmans Cove
Port Arthur: Little Possum Beach
Port Arthur: Point Puer & beach
Port Arthur (unlocalised)
Port Cygnet
Port Cygnet: Cray Point
Port Cygnet: Sandrock Bay
Port Davey: Bond Bay
Port Esperance: Hawkers Green
Port Esperance: Stringers Cove
Port Latta: Cowrie Point
Port Sorell: beach
Port Sorell (unlocalised)
Premaydena: Impression Bay
Primrose Beach to Carlton Bluff
Primrose Point
Ralphs Bay: Maria Point
Ralphs Bay (unlocalised)
Randalls Bay
Rheban Beach
Richmond: Coal River estuary
Robbins Island: Cape Elie
Robbins Island: Marys Island area
Robbins Island: Ransonnet Bay
Rocky Cape: Forwards Beach
Rocky Cape: Mary Anne Cove area
Rocky Cape: Picnic Beach & rocks to S
Rocky Cape (unlocalised)
Rokeby Beach
Saltwater River: Coal Mines beach
Sandy Bay: Nutgrove Beach
Scamander (unlocalised)
Shearwater: Freers Beach
Sisters Beach
Sloping Lagoon: Lagoon Beach
Sloping Main Beach
Sloping Main: Black Jack Point
Smithton: Duck Bay: Picnic Point
Smithton: Duck River mouth
Snug Beach
Somerset: foreshore
Sorell: causeway
Sorell: Oaks Point
Sorell: Orielton Lagoon
South Arm: Fort Beach
South Arm: Hope Beach: southern end
South Arm Neck: northern side
South Bruny Island: Alonnah Beach
South Bruny Island: Alonnah: Sunset Bay
South Bruny Island: Cloudy Bay Lagoon
South Bruny Island: Cloudy Beaches: eastern beach
South Bruny Island: Great Taylors Bay
South Bruny Island: Little Taylors Bay
South Bruny Island: Lunawanna: Daniels Bay
South Bruny Island: Mickeys Bay
South Bruny Island: Old Jetty Beach
South Bruny Island: Simpsons Bay
South Bruny Island: Simpsons Bay: southern end
South Cape Bay (unlocalised)
South East coast of Tasmania (unlocalised)
Southport
Southport Lagoon: northern end
Stanley: Anthony Beach
Stanley: Circular Head
Stanley: East Inlet
Stanley: foreshore
Stanley: Godfreys Beach
Stanley: Green Hills: West Inlet entrance
Stanley: Perkins Bay & West Inlet
Stanley: Tatlows Beach
Stanley (unlocalised)
Stanley: West Inlet
St Helens Point
Swansea: Lisdillon Beach
Swansea: Spiky Beach
Swansea (unlocalised)
Swanwick: foreshore
Tamar River: Bell Bay: Lawrences Bluff
Tamar River: George Town (unlocalised)
Tamar River: George Town: York Cove
Tamar River: Kelso: foreshore
Tamar River: Swan Bay
Taroona Beach
Tasmania (unlocalised)
The Gardens: Coffeys Gulch
The Gardens: Cosy Corner
The Gardens: Swimcart Beach
Three Hummock Island: Mermaid Bay
Three Hummock Island: Three Gullies Bay
Tomahawk Beach
Trial Harbour area
Turners Beach
Verona Sands
Walker Island
West Devonport: Berth 1
West Devonport: Berth 3
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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