11005-12301 Common slater, or rough woodlouse (Porcellio scaber) common and widespread in gardens. Introduced. Broad bay, Dunedin *
11005-12906 Freshwater shrimp (Paratya curvirostris) our only freshwater shrimp species. Remarkably in this shrimp, gender is a function of age - all youngsters are male, becoming female as they mature, a cycle known as protandry. Broad Bay, Otago Peninsula *
DSC_7046 'Dune lakes' koura (Paranephrops planifrons 'dune lakes') these remarkable, morphologically distinctive, large eyed, 'gracile' koura, live in the dune lakes. They thave been observed by Rod 'foraging' after dark - using their fine limbs and slender chelicerae to 'sift' the lakebed in search of dragonfly nymphs buried in the sand. Lake Waikere, Dune Lakes *
