Wild Shellfish Alert - Do not eat recreationally harvested mussels, oysters, clams, pipis, cockles, wedge shells, abalone, periwinkles or scallop roe from waters in or around Pipe Clay Lagoon, White Beach and Nubeena, southeast Tasmania. For more information, including specific affected areas visit: health.tas.gov.au
common elephant-snail, duckbill
Scutus antipodes
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The elephant snail is a large black slug-like gastropod with a white trough-shaped shell sitting on top of it. At night, it moves out from under rocks to feed on algae. Common around Tasmania.
Protected species. Do not take! If you encounter or accidentally catch a protected species, you must return it to where you found it regardless of whether it is dead or alive.
Aboriginal fishers may take and possess elephant snails. For details go to Legislation | Fishing Tasmania
Lives in intertidal and subtidal zones in reef habitat and under rocks in depths up to 20 metres.
Level 3, 134 Macquarie St
Hobart TAS 7000
Phone: (03) 6165 3233, 1300 720 647
Email: fishing.enquiries@nre.tas.gov.au
GPO Box 44
Phone: (03) 6165 3000, 1300 368 550
Email: commercial.fisheries@nre.tas.gov.au
Level 1, 134 Macquarie St
Email: fisheries.licensing@nre.tas.gov.au