Shells of South
East Queensland

Tweed Heads to Noosa
Ovulidae

Ovula ovum

(Linnaeus, 1758)


Specimens

Shag Rock,  Australia
Size: 89.76mm    Collected: 1999
Collected feeding on Cladiella australis (mcfayden, 1936) on rocky reef at 10m by diver.

Gneerings Shoal,  Australia
Size: 76.14mm    Collected: 2001
Collected from rocky reef at 10-15m by diver.

Hot Spot,  Solomon Islands
Size: 90.56mm    Collected: Unknown
Collected from soft corals on reef at 10-15m by diver.

Loloata island,  Papua New Guinea
Size: 88mm    Collected: Unknown
Collected from sarcophyton sp. from 15-20m by diver.

Local Island reef,  Papua New Guinea
Size: 65.67mm    Collected: 1983
Collected from soft corals at 1-2m by snorkeler.

Madang,  Papua New Guinea
Size: 83.15mm    Collected: 1972


Man Friday Resort,  Fiji
Size: 66.48mm    Collected: 1997
Collected form soft corals at 2-3m on coral reef by snorkeler.

Cotabato,  Philippines
Size: 54.79mm    Collected: Unknown
Collected from green soft coral on reef at 10-12m by hookah diver.

Zamboanga,  Philippines
Size: 43.95mm    Collected: Unknown
Collected from green soft coral on reef at 10-12m by hookah diver.

Hutchinsons Shoal,  Australia
Size: mm    Collected: 2006
Feeding on Sarcophyton sp soft coral photographed by diver.