New Zealand Seashore

DSC_7505 Twisted venus (Irus reflexus) detail of siphons. 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. Brighton Beach

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DSC_7505 Twisted venus (Irus reflexus) detail of siphons. 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. Brighton Beach

DSC 7505 Twisted venus Irus reflexus detail siphons mudstone sandstone Brighton Beach