New Zealand Seashore

DSC_5039 Ghost shrimp (Biffarius filholi) developing young on gravid female. This delicately coloured little shrimp burrows in soft sand between low and high tide. It feeds on algae and diatoms which it removes from grains of sand in its burrow. Papanui Inlet, Otago Peninsula

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DSC_5039 Ghost shrimp (Biffarius filholi) developing young on gravid female. This delicately coloured little shrimp burrows in soft sand between low and high tide. It feeds on algae and diatoms which it removes from grains of sand in its burrow. Papanui Inlet, Otago Peninsula

ghost shrimp 5039 Biffarius Callianassa filholi gravid eggs young female excavating burrow Papanui Inlet Otago Peninsula