New Zealand Seashore

DSC_4500 Oweniid worm (Owenia petersenae) detail of tentacle crown extended. Concealed within a flexible shell tube, these small worms live in fine, clean gritty sand, or shell in the low tide zone on sheltered soft shores. Warrington *

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