SLUGS AND SNAILS OF EASTERN AUSTRALIA

 

 

I saw this book while watching tv one day.I had to buy it!

John Stanisic is Australia’s foremost expert on land snails.

He discovered Crikey Steveirwini in 2009 in NE QLD.Just one of his many finds.

Here are a few pictures of some of my favourite slugs,snails and  shells.

 

                Noctepuna poiretiana  

                 Ponderconcha murphyi

               Steorra estherlilleyae

                     

              Fastosarion freycineti

Australian prism slug grey form and pink form

           Atopos australis

This is an American Brown Slug.I think this is cool.

           Sarasinula plebeia

           

Red-triangle slugs

Triboniophorus graeffei

Cystopeitidae,cystopelta

Earshell slug

Testacella haliotidea

Ivory treesnail shell

Noctepunq cerea

Border Ranges Treesnail

Posorites turneri

Lewi’s Top 10 Favourite Sharks

 

10. cookie cutter shark

 

 

9. tiger shark

 

8. mako shark

 

7. prickly dogfish

 

6. goblin shark

5. grey nurse shark

 

4. lemon shark

 

3. crocodile shark

 

2.basking shark 

1. whale shark

Sharks by Lewi

 

Sharks have been some of my favourite animals for most of my life. They have been a passion of mine, especially the whale shark. I like writing about them, drawing them, researching them and watching documentaries about them. Whale sharks are now quite rare, and have become vulnerable in Australian waters due to over fishing and polluted oceans, marine debris and tourism.

There’s one thing that really gets me angry and that’s cruelty to animals. The other thing is shark fishing. Catching one or two sharks for food I’m not against. Taking one or two sharks out of the ocean and eating them isn’t going to do much harm to the ecosystem. But, catching large numbers of sharks and cutting their fins off and throwing them, still alive, back into the ocean to rot, really makes me angry.

Since I was about 4 I have wanted to be a marine biologist and work for Greenpeace. So for a long time now I’ve been wanting to help sharks and stop the  senseless killing of them.

People also kill sharks for fun and because they think that sharks are too dangerous to be in the ocean. But let me tell you this, don’t go into their territory and they won’t bite you. Simple. They were here first.

I hope that people start to think about what they are doing and stop the thoughtless killing of sharks.