Shells of South
East Queensland

Tweed Heads to Noosa
Arcidae

Anadara trapezia

(Deshayes, 1839)


Specimens

Fisherman,  Australia
Size: 37.84mm    Collected: 1994
found dead in mud in a mangrove swamp, periostracum bristly and brown

Bribie Is,  Australia
Size: 34.7mm    Collected: 1986
found dead in mud in a mangrove swamp, periostracum bristly and brown

Red Beach, Queensland,  Australia
Size: mm    Collected: 2023
Collected from beach drift by hand [beach collected]. Dead collected Collected by Tim Murrell 14/11/2023
common in area with many dead speciemens.
The Wrecks to Myora Light,  Australia
Size: 18.54mm    Collected: 1989
found dead in an area of muddy sand and sea grass 0.4m tide

Mbabanga Island,  Solomon Islands
Size: 80.34mm    Collected: 2016
in sand and weed on shallow silty reefy in 1m of water.