DSC_8687 Red brachiopod or papa kura iti (Calloria inconspicua) attached to rocky reef underwater. Otago Harbour *
DSC_0590 Red brachiopod or papa kura iti (Calloria inconspicua) underside of empty shell washed up on reef. Cat's Eye Point, Kakanui *
DSC_2382 Black brachiopod, or papa pouri (Notosaria nigricans) ventral view of empty shell washed up on reef. Remarkably, this species has survived, unchanged, on shallow reefs around New Zealand for approx 18.7 million years (since the Miocene!). Cat's Eye Point, Kakanui *
