DSC_5558 Common scallop, or tipa (Pecten novaezelandiae) live animal. These large, often colourful shells are well known to NZers. Distinct in having strongly convex bottom valves, and flat upper valves as shown here. Pakiri Beach *
DSC_5556 Common scallop, or tipa (Pecten novaezelandiae) live animal. These large, often colourful shells are well known to NZers. Distinct in having strongly convex bottom valves, and flat upper valves as shown here. Pakiri Beach *
DSC_5895 Southern Queen Scallop, or tipa (Zygochlamys delicatula) live animal. This is the smaller of two commercially fished scallop species in New Zealand. Fishing occurs in deep water off the east coast of southern New Zealand and is crude and highly destructive. Trawl nets are dragged across the seafloor, altering seabed ecology, and catching many non-target species. Blueskin Bay
