Shells of South
East Queensland

Tweed Heads to Noosa
Veneridae

Globivenus toreuma

(Gould, 1850)
Shell: moderately small to medium, ranging from 25-35 mm.


Specimens

Mooloolaba,  Australia
Size: 25mm    Collected: 1998
Collected on scuba at 20m.

Hutchinsons Shoal,  Australia
Size: 0mm    Collected: 2000
found dead in sand in 10m of water on coral reef

Gould Reef,  Australia
Size: 35mm    Collected: 2004
On exposed reef at low tide under small slab of dead coral.

Reef 21-516,  Australia
Size: 34mm    Collected: Unknown
No data.

South Passage, Shark Bay,  Australia
Size: 29.36mm    Collected: 2004
Collected from sand ribbon weed at 5-8m by diver.

Local Island,  Papua New Guinea
Size: mm    Collected: 1984
found in 2m of water, burried in 5cm sand

Pacific Gas Wreck ,  Papua New Guinea
Size: mm    Collected: 2001
found dead in sand on coral reef