DSC_6526 Barrel-shrimp (Phronima sp.) with a cluster of tiny young. Not a shrimp at all, but an amphipod and easily identified by its extraordinary habit of living inside the transparent gelatinous body of a salp (like a shrimp in a barrel). Lives a floating existance far out at sea, but periodically cast ashore after storms, especially on southern beaches. Allans Beach, Otago Peninsula *
DSC_6530 Barrel-shrimp (Phronima sp.) with a cluster of tiny young. Not a shrimp at all, but an amphipod and easily identified by its extraordinary habit of living inside the transparent gelatinous body of a salp (like a shrimp in a barrel). Lives a floating existance far out at sea, but periodically cast ashore after storms, especially on southern beaches. Allans Beach, Otago Peninsula
DSC_6555 Barrel-shrimp (Phronima sp.) detail of head. Not a shrimp at all, but an amphipod and easily identified by its extraordinary habit of living inside the transparent gelatinous body of a salp (like a shrimp in a barrel). Lives a floating existance far out at sea, but periodically cast ashore after storms, especially on southern
