New Zealand Seashore

DSC_0187 White nut shell (Nucula sp.) common, sometimes abundant, and compared here with a large cockle shell to show relative size. Internally the valves are silvery with a delicately crenulated ventral margin. Found on the surface of muddy sandflats at and below low watermark. Whangateau *

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DSC_0187 White nut shell (Nucula sp.) common, sometimes abundant, and compared here with a large cockle shell to show relative size. Internally the valves are silvery with a delicately crenulated ventral margin. Found on the surface of muddy sandflats at and below low watermark. Whangateau *

DSC 0187 White nut shell Nucula Linucula hartvigiana cockle shell Whangateau