New Zealand Seashore

DSC_5668 Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) oyster farm, showing oysters growing on racks. Shells are large, heavy and sharp edged, becoming elongated as they grow. Valves can have variable amounts of purple splashed across them. Will establish on soft substrates such as mud, and has aggressively colonised intertidal, and subtidal mudflats since it first appeared in NZ around 1971. Mahurangi Harbour *

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DSC_5668 Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) oyster farm, showing oysters growing on racks. Shells are large, heavy and sharp edged, becoming elongated as they grow. Valves can have variable amounts of purple splashed across them. Will establish on soft substrates such as mud, and has aggressively colonised intertidal, and subtidal mudflats since it first appeared in NZ around 1971. Mahurangi Harbour *

DSC 5668 Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas oyster farm racks low tide Mahurangi Harbour