# The writer lists the snail Ophicardelus australis from the Back Beach, Williamstown.

> Cite as: PLOT record c/FAEQ-SS v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1905), reported by source

- **Address:** c/FAEQ-SS, version 1 of 1 (https://www.plot.eco/c/FAEQ-SS)
- **Value:** Genus Ophicardelus, Beck, 1837. Ophicardelus australis, Quoy and Gaimard. 1832. Auricula australis, Quoy and Gaimard. Voy. Astrolabe, vol. ii., p. 169, pi. 13, f. 34, 38. 1856. Cremnobates cornea, Swainson. Proc. Royal Soc. Van Diemen's Land, vol. iii., p. 43, pi. 7, f. i. Hab. — Back Beach, Williamstown, Port Phillip ; Hastings, Western Port. (Historical passage)
- **About:** Williamstown
- **Kind:** Reported by source
- **Who said it:** Reported by community
- **Period:** 1905
- **Checked:** Reviewed (step 3 of 4): PLOT checked the claim against its source. This is not independent verification. Checked by a person.
- **Open questions:** None open
- **Source:** The Victorian naturalist, v.22, 1905-1906 (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria), p. 16, victoriannatural22fiel, leaf 34, printed page 16 <https://archive.org/details/victoriannatural22fiel>
- **The snippet in PLOT:** <https://www.plot.eco/s/V8TQ-M3?snippet=6d9d4d1b-4a17-45db-9c45-637e32ebb2dd>
- **How they know:** accounts-core@0.1.0: screen\_passage@1, extract\_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator victoriannatural22fiel, leaf 34, printed page 16
- **Limitations:** A writer's account: context and a reason to look again, never a measurement. The writer's words for the place are kept; silence elsewhere is not absence.
- **Editions:** october-26th-release
- **How we found this:** Found under sourcing protocol accounts-core@0.1.0, for the question "Species written about here", in historical\_archives. Screened in on an AI proposal (Claude Opus 5.5 (AI), for review). Extracted with claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract\_passage@1; a person reviewed it before publication.
  - Query: Williamstown \| Williams Town \| Williams-town \| Point Gellibrand \| Gellibrand's Point \| Gellibrand Point \| Jawbone \| Greenwich Bay in archive.org/victoriannatural22fiel (archive.org OCR text, local full-text match)
  - Screening: include (meets criteria): A saltmarsh snail recorded from the Back Beach, Williamstown.

## History
- Version 1 (this version): first published version

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Machine-readable: https://www.plot.eco/c/FAEQ-SS.json
Cite as: PLOT record c/FAEQ-SS v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1905), reported by source