-
"22 x 22 x 6.5mm. Not common here. Recorded in Lyttelton harbour 1974:- http://docs.niwa.co.nz/library/public/CHC2003-045.pdf ""Ostrea-Sigapatella community: Small, dispersed patches of the oysters (Ostrea heffordi) and associated slipper limpet (Sigapatella novaezealandiae) were present wherever there were hard surfaces for settlement. This assemblage was more restricted than the others, its only other member being the small crab Halicarcinus whitei."" Ostrea heffordi = chilensis"
-
"22 x 22 x 6.5mm. Not common here. Recorded in Lyttelton harbour 1974:- http://docs.niwa.co.nz/library/public/CHC2003-045.pdf ""Ostrea-Sigapatella community: Small, dispersed patches of the oysters (Ostrea heffordi) and associated slipper limpet (Sigapatella novaezealandiae) were present wherever there were hard surfaces for settlement. This assemblage was more restricted than the others, its only other member being the small crab Halicarcinus whitei."" Ostrea heffordi = chilensis"
-
"22 x 22 x 6.5mm. Not common here. Recorded in Lyttelton harbour 1974:- http://docs.niwa.co.nz/library/public/CHC2003-045.pdf ""Ostrea-Sigapatella community: Small, dispersed patches of the oysters (Ostrea heffordi) and associated slipper limpet (Sigapatella novaezealandiae) were present wherever there were hard surfaces for settlement. This assemblage was more restricted than the others, its only other member being the small crab Halicarcinus whitei."" Ostrea heffordi = chilensis"
-
Found washed up on the beach. Can be distinguished from other members of Sigapatella by its off-centre apex.
-
Found washed up on the beach. Can be distinguished from other members of Sigapatella by its off-centre apex.
-
Found washed up on the beach.
-
Found washed up on the beach.
-
I am picking this one is Sigapatella novaezelandiae because of the brown on the front and the purple on the back - went out looking especially for this exact colouring :)
-
I am picking this one is Sigapatella novaezelandiae because of the brown on the front and the purple on the back - went out looking especially for this exact colouring :)
-
I am picking this one is Sigapatella novaezelandiae because of the brown on the front and the purple on the back - went out looking especially for this exact colouring :)
-
Quick ID for this species is the presence of an umbilicus cavity on the underside. Other similar NZ species grow shell membrane across this.
-
-
I think this is Sigapatella tenuis as the apex of the shell is more to the centre.
-
I think this is Sigapatella tenuis as the apex of the shell is more to the centre.
-
18x16x6hi
-
18x16x6hi
-
-
-
I think.
-
I think.
-
-
Sigapatella novaezelandiae (Lesson, 1831)
-
-