A drift of sea-snail shells
A collection of washed-up shells on a beach on the south island of New Zealand. Shore transport processes have produced a well-sorted drift of similarly sized (approx. 1-2 cm) shells and shell fragments. The main species represented are the common turret shell (Maoricolpus roseus) and wheel shell (Zethalia zelandica), both sea snails endemic to New Zealand.
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Location
- Oceania (236)
- Australia and New Zealand (222)
- New Zealand (129)
- Exact location (170.7091 E, -45.7798 S)
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3194 × 2129 px;
image/jpeg; 3.3 MB
Camera:
Pentax K10D
Taken on 31
December
2008
Submitted on 27 February 2014
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Credit
Pontus Lurcock (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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