New Zealand Seashells in Colour |
Common terms and phrases
Alcithoe arabica animal aperture attached to rocks bivalves brown Bubble Shell Buccinulum byssus Cats Eye Cellana radians central areas Chlamys collectors colour range colour varieties Cominella Cook Strait Cook Strait southwards Cowrie dead shells deep water Dog Cockle Dosinia Dosinia dredging epidermis Fan Shell found throughout Foveaux Strait Foveaux Strait oyster Golden Grooved Hairy inside large numbers Limpet lives deeply buried low tide low water Maori Murex nodules North Island ocean beaches open coast open rocky coasts operculum Ostrich Foot outer lip Paua Penion periostracum Plate Poor Knights Poor Knights Islands purple Queen Scallop Rock Shell sandy beaches sandy flats seaweed SHELL FAMILY shell found sheltered waters similar Slipper Shell southern waters species spiral spire Struthiolaria papulosa sub-species surface throughout New Zealand Toheroa Top Shell Trochus Trophon Trough Shell Trumpet Tuatua uncommon univalve univalve shell valves variable Venus Shell Volute Wedge Shell white shell whorl worldwide family Xenophalium zelandica