New Zealand Seashore

DSC_4504 Ghost shrimp (Biffarius filholi) large clawed male. 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_4504 Ghost shrimp (Biffarius filholi) large clawed male. 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 4504 Biffarius Callianassa filholi Papanui Inlet Otago Peninsula