New Zealand Seashore

DSC_0781 Wrinkled rock borer (Hiatella sp.) showing orange siphons and deformed shell. Found in the abandoned burrows of piddocks in mudstone and sandstone reefs. As it doesn't construct these burrows itself the valves may become distorted as the animal grows within an imperfectly confined space. Moeraki

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DSC_0781 Wrinkled rock borer (Hiatella sp.) showing orange siphons and deformed shell. Found in the abandoned burrows of piddocks in mudstone and sandstone reefs. As it doesn't construct these burrows itself the valves may become distorted as the animal grows within an imperfectly confined space. Moeraki

DSC 0781 Wrinkled rock borer Hiatella orange siphons deformed shell mudstone sandstone Moeraki