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Molluscs of Tasmania

Siphonariidae: Siphonaria diemenensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 (‘common siphon-shell’)

Synonym(s): diemenensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 javanica Blainville, 1827 scabra Reeve, 1856 exulum Hanley, 1858.

Typical shell-length 30 mm. Can resemble Notoacmea corrodenda. Lives intertidally attached to rocks in sheltered to moderately exposed environments. Native. Endemic to southeastern Australia (NSW, TAS and VIC). In Tasmanian waters, this is a widespread and abundant species.

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Pulmonata – Basommatophora
Superfamily: Siphonarioidea
Family: Siphonariidae
Genus: Siphonaria

A-L Localities for Siphonaria diemenensis

Arthur River: Arthur Beach
Arthur River: Nelson Bay
Arthur River: Sarah Anne Rocks
Arthur River: Sundown Point
Bangor: Lagoon Bay
Bangor: Tasman Bay
Bangor: Two Mile Beach
Bathurst Channel: Schooner Cove
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: beach
Bridport: Adams Beach
Bridport: beach
Bridport: East Sandy Point
Bridport: Lades Beach
Bridport (unlocalised)
Bruny Island: E coast (unlocalised)
Bruny Island (unlocalised)
Burnie: Blythe Heads & estuary
Burnie: foreshore
Burnie: Sulphur Creek
Calverts Beach & Goats Bluff
Cape Barren Island: Bungs Beach
Cape Barren Island: Kenneth Point
Cape Barren Island: Kent Bay
Cape Barren Island: Key Island Bay
Cape Barren Island: Munro Bay
Cape Barren Island: Nautilus Cove
Cape Barren Island: Neds Point
Cape Barren Island: Rooks River mouth
Cape Barren Island: SE of Tar 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 Beach: Spectacle Island
Carlton: Park Beach
Chain of Lagoons: Four Mile Creek: beach
Chain of Lagoons: McIntyres Beach
Chain of Lagoons: Piccaninny Point
Charlotte Cove
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
Clarke Island (unlocalised)
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)
Coningham Beach
Coningham: foreshore
Connellys Bay
Cooee Beach
Cremorne: foreshore
Cremorne: Pipe Clay Head to Cape Deslacs
Cremorne: Pipe Clay Lagoon
Croppies Beach: northern end
Croppies Point
Curtis Island
Davey River: Carvers Point
Deadmans Bay
Deal Island (unlocalised)
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: Paradise Cove (unlocalised)
Devonport (unlocalised)
Dianas Beach (unlocalised)
Dodges Ferry: Okines Beach
Dodges Ferry: Red Ochre Beach
Douglas River: beach
Dover: beach
Dover: Kents Beach
Dover: Roaring Bay Beach
Dover (unlocalised)
Droughty Point
Dunalley: beach
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 Point
East Kangaroo Island: North Point
East Kangaroo Island (unlocalised)
East Ulverstone
East Ulverstone: Buttons Beach
East Wynyard: beach
Eddystone Point (unlocalised)
Electrona: Peggys Beach
Falmouth: foreshore
Falmouth: Mariposa Beach
Flinders Island: Arthur Bay: Long Point
Flinders Island: Big River Cove
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 (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
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: Settlement Point
Flinders Island: Sleepy Beach
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)
Fortescue Bay
Frederick Henry Bay: Sloping Island
Frederick Henry Bay (unlocalised)
Freycinet Peninsula: Bryans Beach
Freycinet Peninsula: Cooks Beach
Freycinet Peninsula: Hazards Beach
Freycinet Peninsula: The Hazards
Freycinet Peninsula: Wineglass Bay
Friendly Beaches
Garden Island Sands
Georges Bay: Akaroa: foreshore
Georges Bay: Blanche Point
Georges Bay: Burns Bay
Georges Bay: St Helens (unlocalised)
Goat Island: foreshore of island and nearby mainland
Goose Island
Gordon: Three Hut Point
Granville Harbour
Granville Harbour: coast to N
Great Dog Island: beaches in NE
Great Musselroe Bay
Great Oyster Bay
Greens Beach: Friend 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
Hobart: Sandy Bay (unlocalised)
Hogan Island
Howden: foreshore
Howrah Beach
Hunter Island: Cave Bay
Ida Bay (unlocalised)
Kettering foreshore
Kettering: Oyster Cove
Kettering: Trial Bay
King Island: British Admiral Beach
King Island: Cape Wickham: foreshore to E
King Island: City of Melbourne Bay
King Island: Currie Harbour
King Island: Disappointment Bay
King Island: E coast (unlocalised)
King Island: Ettrick Beach
King Island: Fitzmaurice Bay
King Island: Grassy
King Island: Grassy Harbour
King Island: Halfmoon Bay
King Island: Lavinia Beach: beach nr Lake Martha Lavinia
King Island: Little Porky Beach
King Island: Naracoopa: foreshore
King Island: Pass River Bay
King Island: Red Hut Point
King Island: Seal Bay: Black 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
Lauderdale: Ralphs Bay
Lauderdale: Roches Beach
Lauderdale: Seven Mile Beach
Leith: foreshore
Leith: Lillico Beach
Leven River: mouth
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
Louisa Bay
Louisville: Alginate Bay
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 Siphonaria diemenensis

Maatsuyker Island
Margate: Dru Point & Nierinna Creek mouth
Maria Island: Bloodstone Beach
Maria Island: Bloodstone Point
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: Oyster Bay
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
Marrawah: Green Point
Marrawah: Green Point Beach
Marrawah (unlocalised)
Marrawah: West Point
Mayfield Beach to Mayfield Point
Mayfield Point to Little Christmas Island
Middleton: foreshore
Midway Point (unlocalised)
Monk Bay
Murdunna: Sommers Beach
Musselroe Point
Narawntapu: Badger Beach
Narawntapu: Badger Head
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: Bull Bay
North Bruny Island: Cape Queen Elizabeth
North Bruny Island: Dennes Point
North Bruny Island: Ford Bay
North Bruny Island: Killora Bay
North Bruny Island: Killora: Rat Bay
North Bruny Island: Mars Bluff
North Bruny Island: Nebraska Beach
North Bruny Island: Roberts Point
North Bruny Island: Simmonds Bay
North Bruny Island: Variety Bay
North coast of Tasmania (unlocalised)
Nubeena: Parsons Bay
Nubeena: Roaring Beach
Nubeena: White Beach
Okehampton Bay (unlocalised)
Opossum Bay: Michaels Beach & White Rock Point
Opossum Bay: The Spit & Shelly Beach
Orford: East Shelly Beach
Orford: Emerald Beach
Orford: Luther Point
Orford: Millingtons Beach
Orford: Prosser River: mouth
Orford: Raspins Beach
Orford: Shelly Beach (unlocalised)
Orford: Spring Beach
Orford (unlocalised)
Orford: West Shelly Beach
Outer Sister Island
Passage Island
Peggs Beach (unlocalised)
Penguin: Johnsons Beach
Penguin: Lonah & Lodders Point
Penguin to Ulverstone: foreshore
Penguin: Watcombe Beach
Pipers Head
Pirates Bay: Fossil Island
Pirates Bay: The Blowhole
Pirates Bay (unlocalised)
Pittwater Bluff: foreshore to W
Planters Beach to Fishers Point
Point Sorell: Margaret Rocks
Port Arthur: Basket Bay: Remarkable Cave
Port Arthur: Denmans Cove
Port Arthur: Little Possum Beach
Port Arthur: Point Puer & beach
Port Arthur: Safety Cove
Port Arthur (unlocalised)
Port Cygnet
Port Cygnet: Cray Point
Port Cygnet: Sandrock Bay
Port Davey: Bond Bay
Port Davey: Breaksea Islands
Port Davey: Hannant Inlet
Port Davey: Whalers Cove
Port Esperance: Stringers Cove
Port Latta: Brickmakers Beach
Port Latta: Cowrie Point
Port Sorell: beach
Port Sorell (unlocalised)
Premaydena: Impression Bay
Primrose Sands
Ralphs Bay: Maria Point
Randalls Bay
Ransons Beach
Rheban Beach
Robbins Island: Cape Elie
Robbins Island: East Beach
Rocky Boat Inlet
Rocky Cape: Anniversary Bay
Rocky Cape: Burgess Cove
Rocky Cape: Castle Rock Bay
Rocky Cape: Cathedral Rocks Bay
Rocky Cape: foreshore N of Picnic Beach
Rocky Cape: Forwards Beach
Rocky Cape: northern coves
Rocky Cape: Picnic Beach & rocks to S
Rocky Cape (unlocalised)
Saltwater River: Coal Mines beach
Sandy Bay: Nutgrove Beach
Scamander: Steels Beach
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
Snug Beach
Somerset: foreshore
Sorell: Orielton Lagoon
South Arm: Fort Beach
South Arm: Hope Beach: southern end
South Arm: Mary Ann Beach & Gellibrand Point
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: Lighthouse 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: Simpsons Bay
South Cape Bay: Lion Rock: beach to SE
South Cape Rivulet: mouth
South Croppies Point
Southport
Southport: Big Lagoon Beach
Southport: Hythe Beach
Southport: Roaring Beach
Stanley: Circular Head
Stanley: Cow Rock beach
Stanley: Godfreys Beach
Stanley: Halfmoon Bay
Stanley: Tatlows Beach
Stanley (unlocalised)
Stephens Bay
St Helens Point
Strahan: Cape Sorell
Strahan: Macquarie Heads
Stumpys Bay (unlocalised)
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
Swanwick: foreshore
Tamar River: Beauty Point: Inspection Head area
Tamar River: Bell Bay: Big Bay
Tamar River: Bell Bay: Deceitful Cove
Tamar River: Bell Bay: Donovans Bay
Tamar River: Bell Bay: power-station jetty
Tamar River: Bell Bay: Sawyers Point
Tamar River: Clarence Point: foreshore
Tamar River: George Town: She Oak Point area
Tamar River: George Town: York Cove
Tamar River: Ilfraville: Redbill Point
Tamar River: Kelso: foreshore
Tamar River: Middle Arm
Tamar River: Paper Beach
Tamar River: Rowella: West Bay
Tamar River: West Arm
Taroona Beach
Taroona: Dixons Beach
Taroona: Hinsby 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: Taylors Beach
Three Hummock Island: East Telegraph Beach
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: northern end
Three Hummock Island: Three Gullies Bay: southern end
Three Hummock Island: West Telegraph Beach
Tinderbox Beach
Tomahawk Beach
Triabunna: Plain Place Beach
Trial Harbour
Trial Harbour area
Turners Beach
Ulverstone (unlocalised)
Verona Sands
Walker Island
Waterhouse Beach
Waterhouse Island
Waterhouse Point
Wedge Bay
West Ulverstone: foreshore
West Ulverstone: Picnic Point: beach to W
Weymouth: beach
Woodbridge: Fleurtys Bay & Point
Woodbridge: Flowerpot
Woodbridge: foreshore & Birchs Point
Woolnorth: Valley Bay
Woolnorth: Woolnorth Point
Wykeholm Point & Bay
Wynyard: Fossil Bluff
Wynyard: Inglis River mouth

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