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Found washed up on the beach. Identified using Steve de C. Cook's New Zealand's Coastal Invertebrates.
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Found washed up on the beach. Identified using Steve de C. Cook's New Zealand's Coastal Invertebrates.
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Dead, buried in sandstone. Lots of these seen in this area.
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Was Notirus reflexus aka Rock Venus shell. Small, often mishapen bivalve that lives in holes other creatures have bored in rocks, but can also inhabit mud. Auporian, Cookian, Forsterian, not uncommon.
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Was Notirus reflexus aka Rock Venus shell. Small, often mishapen bivalve that lives in holes other creatures have bored in rocks, but can also inhabit mud. Auporian, Cookian, Forsterian, not uncommon.
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Was Notirus reflexus aka Rock Venus shell. Small, often mishapen bivalve that lives in holes other creatures have bored in rocks, but can also inhabit mud. Auporian, Cookian, Forsterian, not uncommon.
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aka Irus (Notirus) reflexus. Some animals that have died in the burrows they have borrowed from rock borers. The shells refuse to be extracted as the animal has outgrown the burrow entrance before dying.
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cast up on sandy beach