New Zealand Seashore

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

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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 6530 barrelshrimp amphipod Phronima novæzealandiæ adult female young babies brooding guarding Allans Beach Otago Peninsula salp