PC_220047 Stalk-eyed mud crab, or papaka (Hemiplax hirtipes) underwater at low tide beside burrow. lives in the intertidal zone in burrows in mud, in harbours, mudflats and tidal creeks. Papanui Inlet, Otago Peninsula *
DSC_7245 Pea crab (Nepinnotheres novaezelandiae) large gravid female, with smaller male partially concealed beneath. Living inside Green-lipped mussels, pea crabs are completely reliant on their hosts for shelter and food. They steal filtered food from the mussel, damaging it's gills. Brighton Beach *
DSC_7363 Pea crab (Nepinnotheres novaezelandiae) large gravid female, inside Green-lipped mussel host. Pea crabs are completely reliant on their hosts - usually mussels - for shelter and food. They steal filtered food from the mussel, damaging it's gills. Brighton Beach *
