Tasmanian Shelf Province

It is a provincial level bioregion in the Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia (IMCRA) system.

[1] The Tasmanian Shelf and adjacent Bass Strait Shelf provinces correspond to the Bassian marine ecoregion in the WWF's Marine Ecoregions of the World system.

[2] The Tasmanian Shelf Province includes the cold-temperate waters that encircle the east, west, and south coasts of Tasmania, from Cape Grim at the north-western tip of the island to Cape Naturaliste at the north-eastern tip.

The Southeast Shelf and Western Bass Strait transitions are biotone regions between the cool temperate provinces and the warm-temperate provinces to the northwest and northeast.

In the summer months species from the Southeast Shelf Transition migrate southwards along the east coast of Tasmania.