New Zealand Seashore

DSC_5734 Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) oyster farm, showing oyster racks at low tide. Shells are large, heavy and sharp edged, becoming elongated as they grow. Valves can have variable amounts of purple splashed across them. Will establish on soft substrates such as mud, and has aggressively colonised intertidal, and subtidal mudflats since it first appeared in NZ around 1971. Mahurangi Harbour

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DSC_5734 Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) oyster farm, showing oyster racks at low tide. Shells are large, heavy and sharp edged, becoming elongated as they grow. Valves can have variable amounts of purple splashed across them. Will establish on soft substrates such as mud, and has aggressively colonised intertidal, and subtidal mudflats since it first appeared in NZ around 1971. Mahurangi Harbour

DSC 5734 Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas oyster farm racks low tide Mahurangi Harbour