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Family CharopidaeObserver
greyDescription
Small snail (2.0-2.5 mm across) found under a log in native forest.
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Robson's Blanket Octopus Tremoctopus robsoniObserver
lisa_bennettDescription
Found at water's edge, and easily caught with a small hand net.
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Northern New Zealand Dotterel Charadrius obscurus ssp. aquiloniusObserver
john_barklaDescription
Occasional, on sandy beach
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Northern New Zealand Dotterel Charadrius obscurus ssp. aquiloniusObserver
joedillon
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Northern New Zealand Dotterel Charadrius obscurus ssp. aquiloniusObserver
xylhqDescription
A few of them running across dunes.
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Radiate Limpet Cellana radiansObserver
madelyngunnDescription
12/4/2019
Found at the beach on rocks.
2/7/2019
NOT A BALD EAGLE
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Common Land Snails and Slugs Order StylommatophoraObserver
jtweedDescription
Under rock in the (sub-)alpine zone.
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Cowries Family CypraeidaeObserver
oscarkokakoDescription
Found on a Geology trip with University of Otago
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Girdled Snail Hygromia cinctellaObserver
stephen_thorpeDescription
Slopes of Mount Eden volcanic cone, Mount Eden, Auckland 1024. Three snails on the lower surface of fronds on an Asplenium oblongifolium plant.
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Bassina katherinaeObserver
aucklandmuseumDescription
Bassina katherinae
Holotype
Collected: November 1945
Collected by: A. W. B. Powell, C. R. Laws, J. Marwick, J. A. Bartrum
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_naturalsciences-object-249752
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Alcithoe fususObserver
arnimDescription
A.fusus perhaps? Quite small for A.arabica
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Arabic Volute Alcithoe arabicaObserver
arnimDescription
big moon - big tides, lots of molluscs and other invertebrates washed in on the tide
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Paxillosidan Sea Stars Order PaxillosidaObserver
bylsandDescription
?? hard white bits on/in the surface of a rock in a cave streamway
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Hawaiian Honey Cowry Naria helvola ssp. hawaiiensisObserver
smithsonian_marinegeo
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Planktonic Molluscs Genus LimacinaObserver
ewrunn1ngDescription
Animal on lower right. In a plankton tow off Pier 60, Seattle.
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Tonnoid Snails Superfamily TonnoideaObserver
rpillonDescription
Veliger of tonnoidea
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glycymerisDescription
11.5×4mm.
I think this is Kuroshioturris angustata.
(Link: http://www.mollusca.co.nz/speciesdetail.php?taxa=3625)
Found from Mission bay beach, Auckland.
Sand of this beach is from Pakiri sand mining.
Maybe, this species is rare.
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Violet Sea Snail Janthina janthinaObserver
glycymerisDescription
Washed up. Rarer than J. exigua, but often washed up on west coast.
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uwkwajDescription
Under rock, depth 15m. DNA apparently puts this in Ovatipsa, shell colors and pattern strongly indicate Talostolida.
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Girdled Snail Hygromia cinctellaObserver
stephen_thorpeDescription
Opanuku Walkway, Henderson, Auckland 0612. Arboreal on mahoe, trackside.
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Magnificent Volute Cymbiola magnificaObserver
richardlingDescription
A Magnificent Volute (Cymbiola magnifica) partially buried in sand and shells
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Magnificent Volute Cymbiola magnificaObserver
nicklambertDescription
A new one for me. Will upload better pics when I make it home.
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Zoila friendiiObserver
jmartincrossleyDescription
camera light and arm reflection in shell.
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Genus OnchidorisObserver
chicky67Description
A never before observed nudibranch in New Zealand as far as we are aware first observed by Richard Borland @apteryx54 who took us to observe them a few days later.
Has striking resemblance to Muricata and Proxima but a fellow diver got photos of this species spawning and the egg coil is different to the pictures we have seen of Muricata and proxima egg coils. (See last photo uploaded, photo by original observer Richard Borland)
Awaiting on comments via email from Dr Richard Willan.
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Girdled Snail Hygromia cinctellaObserver
stephen_thorpeDescription
Opanuku Walkway, Henderson, Auckland. Arboreal.
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New Zealand Scallop Pecten novaezelandiaeObserver
simonf7532Description
One of a few, none legal size
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Common Southern Bean Cowry Ellatrivia mercesObserver
pjd1Description
Uncommon - a few shells cast up amongst other shells and seaweeds at back of rocky beach.
Specimens sent to Andrew Spurgeon.
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nzwideDescription
Phenacovolva wakayamaensis has had a name change, It is now called Kurodavolva wakayamaensis
see:
http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=431185
I see that Phenacovolva wakayamaensis is listed in Nature Watch but with no details so thought I would report the spindle cowries (Phenacovolva wakayamaensis) that I collected off a deep reef (35m) just out side Tutukaka entrance in the 1980’s. They are very hard to spot underwater as the shell is covered by a white mantle that is covered with pink dots, the same colour as the pink slender branches of the Primnoeides gorgonian on which they feed. They are also found at the Poor Knights Islands and I have heard of them been found on deep reefs off Cape Karikari.
Their type locality is Balicasag Is. in the Philippines,
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Therasiella tamoraObserver
openlabnzDescription
Found in Kauri forest litter.
