Blood red volute
A veliger of some sort.
~6mm across
Identified as from the Family Charopidae which ranges through the Wet Tropics (Facebook page Snails of Australasia). It might be Sinployea intermedia (Odhner, 1917) but cannot be confirmed.
Brachiopod fossil (???) deep in the caves of Wee Jasper
Burrinjuck Devonian sedimentary sequence / ~400 MYA
Orange form. Black, grey and orange lipped forms growing together in same location. Visible density around 8 per linear metre on mid S pontoons.
Shell only washed up on the beach. Extremely brittle.
Pictured at night in 5-15m of water
Fresh dead collected underneath rock boulder at 1-2m deep, 2021 off Cowaramup Reef, WA. Monster shell at 71mm, almost WRS
Haustellum wilsoni (D’Attilio & Old, 1971). Rare endemic muricid live collected from sandy limestone reef at 20-39m deep by local diver off Augusta, WA, 1968
in the spoil heap of a Rhytidoponera metallica nest
In a pile of micro shells on back shore. High tide
In a pile of micro shells on back shore. High tide
Dead on beach
Sorry didn;t maange to get a pic of the feet. cld be juvenile?
Hybrid Fairy x Little Tern - one of several in the Coorong.
Part of the disbanded Cawthron Institute collection. Some of the original periostracum still adhering and lovely sculpturing beneath.
Label reads: 'Fusitriton retiolus, Foveaux Strait. From lobster pot that had been submerged for about two years.'
Fusitriton retiolus is still extant as an epithet on WoRMS but can't find photo to compare.
Shell length = 36mm.
I have too many moths to add here.But this one was exceptionally beautiful. ID from a moth expert . This one was sitting on my kitchen wall. After I took the photo she flew away and never revisited me.
Seen in shallow pools in intertidal zone on sandy substrate. At least a dozen sighted. Approximately 8cm long and 2-2.5cm diameter.
Images by G. Giddings.
Provisional name = Asymmetron lucayanum clade B of Kon et al 2006 | Photo license and credit belong to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) and University of Hawai'i at M_noa | This observation is a part of the collaborative work between FLMNH, the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) and Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and University of Hawai'i at M_noa
Now this was a bit of a surprise.
Swam out when I lifted a rock. It then tucked into a space nearby. Very weird things. Habitat shot last. That's the spot he was in before I flipped the rock.
~4cm long
Lower intertidal.
Photos by my partner Harvey Braun (C)
Tode on rise
Tide on Rise Late Arvo
Haminoea sp RB1. 6 specimens were found around roots of seagrass.
Hmm not sure, thought I would find this relatively quickly
Resting on an understorey plant. At a quick glance, I initially thought it was a bird dropping. The white hairs give it the appearance of being infected with an entomopathogenic fungi, maybe as a deterrent to predators...? Definitely the most amazing cerambycid I've ever seen!
Update: this species finally has a name! The paper naming and describing it can be freely downloaded from here: https://doi.org/10.54102/ajt.iv1x5
Found under bark of fallen Eucalyptus tree with Poropterus crassipes
Found and ID’d by Otto Bell
Athanopsis australis,
Blairgowrie Marina, night dive.
Shell is smaller than my thumbnail
Voucher specimen D.Nicolle 5061 & M.E.French.
Mallee 3 metres tall, tallest 3.5 m, but most 1.5 to 2.5 m. Bark smooth throughout, but ribbony-rough on lower stems. Leaves glossy, dark green, with scattered lenticles. Flowers greenish. Approximately 100+ plants growing on southern slope of hill on whitish granitic sand in mallee scrub with Eucalyptus occidentalis, E. pleurocarpa, E. uncinata subsp. uncinata and E. xanthonema.
The barnacles attached to this sea snake are recorded at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/204351710.
A large bridled goby from Balcombe Estuary, Victoria, Australia
Have found a few in The Gutter dive site, Bass Point.
Port Hedland WA - Rec Centre (Keesing Street)
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Littorinimorpha
FAM Cypraeidae
Cribrarula exmouthensis ssp. magnifica