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More pipi shells than usual. 7 pipi shells on right, with 2 Triangle, 2 Dosinia anus, 4 southern Tuatua
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Found empty washed up on the harbour beach.
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Many of these little bivalves on the mudflats.
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A rather unusually shaped pipi, washed up dead on the beach.
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A rather unusually shaped pipi, washed up dead on the beach.
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A rather unusually shaped pipi, washed up dead on the beach.
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A rather unusually shaped pipi, washed up dead on the beach.
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intertidal rocks - possibly washed up from sandy beach
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Pipi. One of the commonest bivalves found on sandy beaches in New Zealand. Eaten for centuries by the Maori as evidenced by ancient middens. Shell banks of this species are common. See in the Google map for this entry.
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Pipi. Photographed this exceptionally robust specimen because of it's evident age. The shells are nearly 5mm thick and at maximum dimensions for local specimens. After surviving decades of depredations by sea-creatures it was chosen and opened as a large fat animal by Homo sapiens, only to be disappointed to find the weight was all shell and the geriatric animal barely edible.
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pipi 56x32x9hi half
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pipi 56x32x9hi half
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pipi 30 to 56mm Compared with tuatua in the same area, there are far fewer pipi shells, (these are all I noticed along 400m) the pipi size range is more limited, and all the pipi shells are worn. Maybe the pipi shells are washed here from closer to the estuary mouth?
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These were about 60 mm in length and were at the top of the beach - would have been covered by water at high tide, but exposed at low tide.
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These were about 60 mm in length and were at the top of the beach - would have been covered by water at high tide, but exposed at low tide.
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These were about 60 mm in length and were at the top of the beach - would have been covered by water at high tide, but exposed at low tide.
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These were about 60 mm in length and were at the top of the beach - would have been covered by water at high tide, but exposed at low tide.