charles darwin in Hobart Town February 1836  
Shells

Examples of the shells Darwin collected in the environs of Hobart included rock barnacles, Mesodesma bivalves, a whelk, an amber shell, some bulimoid land shells, periwinkles, top shells and air breathers.

1. Periwinkles mesodesma bivalve
2. Austrosipho maxima - Whelk austrosipho maxima - whelk
3. Crustacean cirripedia catophragmus
sp
. - Rock Barnacle
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4. Mesodesma bivalve shells

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