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Fungi Including Lichens (Kingdom Fungi)Observer
limpetsDescription
On dead log
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Orange Pore Fungus (Favolaschia claudopus)Observer
limpetsDescription
On dead log
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Fungi Including Lichens (Kingdom Fungi)Observer
limpetsDescription
On dead log
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Common Rock Crab (Hemigrapsus sexdentatus)Observer
limpetsDescription
On shoreline among rocks at very low tide.
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Lined Whelk (Buccinulum linea)Observer
limpetsDescription
On the underside of a rock at very low tide.
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Lined Whelk (Buccinulum linea)Observer
limpetsDescription
On the underside of a rock at very low tide.
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Arabic Volute (Alcithoe arabica)Observer
limpetsDescription
Half buried in muddy sand in very low tide, eating a juvenile Turritella.
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Arabic Volute (Alcithoe arabica)Observer
limpetsDescription
Exposed half-buried volute at very low tide in muddy sand.
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Shield Shell (Scutus breviculus)Observer
limpetsDescription
On upper side of rock at low tide in shallow water near tide line.
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Long-nosed Fur Seal (Arctocephalus forsteri)Observer
limpetsDescription
A lone baby seal sitting on the sand at low tide,
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Pelagic Gooseneck Barnacle (Lepas anatifera)Observer
limpetsDescription
These were attached to the underside of a kelp holdfast washed ashore. Some were still alive moving gently.
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Springtails (Subclass Collembola)Observer
limpetsDescription
Several hundred minute purple insects swimming around in a rain puddle on concrete in sunshine.
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Notoacmea badiaObserver
limpetsDescription
This Notoacmea species is not widely distributed around New Zealand and is restricted to the South Island but difficult to find. It lives in the intertidal zone. On the rocks at Kaka Point they were found in association with the red algae Lophothamnion hirtum.
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Notoacmea badiaObserver
limpetsDescription
Notoacmea badia from type locality - St. Clair Beach, Dunedin, New Zealand. 1981
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Cart-Rut Shell (Dicathais orbita)Observer
limpetsDescription
White Rock Shell. In crevices of rocks exposed at low tide.
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Observer
limpetsDescription
Family: Fissurellidae.
Uncommon to rare, found washed up on a white sand beach so very difficult to spot. It is one of only six New Zealand keyhole limpets, all in the genus Monilifera.
