Location: Pipeclay Lagoon (Hobart region, TAS)

Habitat: Intertidal sand/mud

Location: Ralphs Bay (Hobart region, TAS)

Habitat: Intertidal sand/mud

Location: Ralphs Bay (Hobart region, TAS)

Habitat: Intertidal sand/mud

Nassarius pauperatus
Impoverished whelk

 

Phylum: Mollusca

Class: Gastropoda

Subclass: Orthogastropoda

Order: Sorbeoconcha

Family: Columbellidae

Genus: Nassarius

Subgenus: Niotha

Species: pauperatus

 

Similar species:
Nassarius pyrrhus
Nassarius pauper
Nassarius nigellus
Nassarius burchardi