DSC_7774 Smooth Dosinia (Dosinia subrosea) beach drift shell. A large Dosinia species, more finely sculpted than the Coarse Dosinia. Shallowly buried in moderately fine sand, on protected to open to shores. Pakiri Beach, Northland
DSC_0784 Elegant venus (Irus elegans) 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
