Western Australian Marron
General Information Other Names Crayfish – Yabbies Description Two types are found in WA: hairy marron (Cherax tenuimanus) and smooth marron (Cherax cainii). Smooth marron are found in most south-west rivers and dams. They are what most marroners have seen and captured, and are the farmed aquaculture species. Hairy marron are listed as critically endangered […]
Sydney Rock Oysters
General Information Other Names Crayfish – Yabbies Description Two types are found in WA: hairy marron (Cherax tenuimanus) and smooth marron (Cherax cainii). Smooth marron are found in most south-west rivers and dams. They are what most marroners have seen and captured, and are the farmed aquaculture species. Hairy marron are listed as critically endangered […]
Spencer Golf Mussels
Australian Sydney Rock Oysters
The Sydney rock oyster, Saccostrea glomerata, formerly known as Saccostrea commercialis, is an oyster species endemic to Australia and New Zealand. In Australia it is found in bays, inlets and sheltered estuaries from Wingan Inlet in eastern Victoria, along the east coast of New South Wales and up to Hervey Bay Queensland., around northern Australia […]
Australian Pacific Oysters
The shell of Crassostrea gigas varies widely with the environment where it is attached. Its large, rounded, radial folds are often extremely rough and sharp. The two valves of the shell are slightly different in size and shape, the right valve being moderately concave. Shell colour is variable, usually pale white or off-white. Mature specimens […]
Australian Eastern Rock Lobster
Sagmariasus verreauxi is a species of spiny lobster that lives around northern New Zealand, the Kermadec Islands the Chatham Islands and Australia from Queensland to Tasmania. It is probably the longest decapod crustacean in the world, alongside the American lobster Homarus americanus, growing to lengths of up to 60 centimetres. Scientific Name – Panulirus cygnus Western […]
Australian Greenlip Abalone
The shell measures up to 18 cm. The species features a distinctive green ring around the foot at the bottom of the shell. The large, rather thin shell has an oval shape. The distance of the apex from the margin is one-sixth to one-eighth the length of the shell. The shell is nearly smooth but […]
Australian Black Mussels
This animal grows up to 150 mm in length. It is a shiny black mussel which grows clustered in groups on rocks and in sandy areas. It is narrower and blacker than the Mediterranean mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis, with which it is often confused.
