Jul 7, 2025
#2936 - Antigona chemnitzii - Chemnitz's Cockle
AKA Periglypta chemnitzi (a mispelling), Periglypta chemnitzii and originally as Venus chemnitzii.
The first field trip I did with the WA Naturalist's Club after my return from New Zealand last year was a beach walk at Woodman Point - I collected a quite nice variety of seashells, such as these one with its intriguingly serrated edges, which is found on seashores around a fair amount of the Indian, Western Pacific, and Australian shorelines, but doesn't seem to be very common.
That assumes it's actually chemnitzii, though - one of the resources I checked says that we don't get chemnitzii in Australia, and instead have laqueata instead.
Woodman Point, Perth, Western Australia.
