List of marine molluscs of Australia
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Marine molluscs of Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
are a part of the molluscan fauna of Australia
Fauna of Australia
The fauna of Australia consists of a huge variety of animals; some 83% of mammals, 89% of reptiles, 90% of fish and insects and 93% of amphibians that inhabit the continent are endemic to Australia...
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Marine molluscs include saltwater snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, clam
Clam
The word "clam" can be applied to freshwater mussels, and other freshwater bivalves, as well as marine bivalves.In the United States, "clam" can be used in several different ways: one, as a general term covering all bivalve molluscs...
s and other classes of Mollusca.
See also
- List of marine molluscs of Indonesia
- List of marine molluscs of East Timor
- List of marine molluscs of Papua New Guinea
- List of marine molluscs of the Solomon Islands
- List of marine molluscs of Vanuatu
- List of marine molluscs of New Caledonia
- List of marine molluscs of New Zealand
External links
- http://www.molluscs.otago.ac.nz/index.html