Eggs.

Ejecting a stream of fliud from the top at regular intervals.

snorkeling

Lower intertidal, found on rocks surrounded by sandy mudflat in the lagoon.
2nd photo is the condition of the specimen before cleaning.
The foot was with black and white spots when alive.

Predation on a starfish. Charonia are really fast, the starfish escaped with the loss of an arm

old image, location to within 50 meters

The date is tentative.
This specimen is from the Auckland shell auction 2020, It was pretty expensive but gorgeous specimen,

Intertidal, found under a isolated rock on muddy sand at low tide. Laying eggs.

5m depth on silty/sandy bottom

Eggs on the stem of Sabella spallanzanii

25 feet deep, just off number 9 or 10

Approx 4mm width.
Intertidal, very common among Perna canaliculus and kelps. Very active.

10 m depth

Under a rock just below low tide.

An extremely dense area of these bubble snails

Many specimens of various sizes seen in a small area

Found under ledges at very low tide. Laying eggs.

Very small red "clams." Smaller than a Little Black Mussel.

Argo, A. hians riding jellyfish

Obtained during a shell hash collection

large marine snail. Roughly 70-80cm long

Found in rocky intertidal. Photo scanned from 35mm slide.

Northern tuatua at top.
60 x 40 x 12hi for half

(Southern tuatua Paphies donacina at bottom
60 x 40 x 8 )

Arabic volute. Several ploughing through the mudflat at low tide. Haven't seen these before in the intertidal zone.

There were thousands of them. Stumbling apon these is still one of the best moments of my life!

Pink lady at Omega Reef

Absolutely stoked to find a live specimen for the first time!
Found on sandy bottom in shallow water at extremely low tide.

2-3 mm.
Intertidal, found under a stone.

Alive, found on sand at low tide.

Intertidal, found on tidal flat.

This snail was massive - probably between 15 and 20 cm in diameter

Lower intertidal / subtidal, many alive individuals were found in sand.
Sorry for bad photo, I used bright light to take these photo. Real one is yellow colour.

Intertidal, found under rock.

Pustular triton at the Harvest Capella wreck

Found snorkeling @ 6-8' on sand flat near grass, off beach. Very rare @this location.

Living Southern Olive,
found in Mission Bay, -30cm at low tide.

Small white bubble shell with shell visible. Animal is 30mm long x 15mm wide and about 10mm high. In shallow pool around high tide region.

At mid tide on a large rock. This small radians hitching a ride on the back of another.