Shells of South
East Queensland

Tweed Heads to Noosa
Veneridae

Periglypta reticulata

(Linnaeus, 1758)
Shell: medium, ranging from 47-66 mm.


Specimens

Hutchinsons Shoal,  Australia
Size: mm    Collected: 2007
found dead in sand on coral reef

Hutchinsons Shoal,  Australia
Size: 0mm    Collected: 1999
found deea on ceanic side od reef in 10m of water shell is without visable pattern, but strongly sculptured and quite old.

Sykes Reef,  Australia
Size: 47mm    Collected: 2019
Found buried in sand on small tidal channel on coral reef at low tide.

Lady Elliot Island,  Australia
Size: 66.47mm    Collected: 1971
Collected from coral rubble on sand at 8-10m by diver.

Munda,  Solomon Islands
Size: mm    Collected: Unknown
found dead in sand on coral reef