nzshells's Identifications

Collected by Tim Quinnell (DOC, Te Kuiti)

Newly hatched ? Shell only 2-3 mm diameter

The three whelks.

Collected by Peter Corson (DOC) and Carmel Richardson.

Collected by Tim Quinnell, DOC

Collected in leaflitter from a pukatea/hinau/rewarewa swamp forest remnant in Woodlands Retirement Village.

Minute snails that just looked like black bits of dirt to the naked eye. Found under a loose bit of bark on a Taupata tree.

Freshwater mollusc? In the remains of an artificial creek bed which drained pastures for a few weeks a year or so ago.

Small snail, approx 3mm, in shallow river.

In small stream.

This wee snail shell is nearly transparent

In a pond, on the margin.

On the underside of a submerged piece of wood.
This area is not perpetually under water.
15m from the nearest permanent water source.
Less than 5mm long.

In our aquarium, not sure if it originally came from a pond or river sample.

Water snail in goldfish pond

About 7mm long.

In a small ornamental pond.

In water race, with water cress, rushes, forget me not, grasses.

In a part of the creek with a stone-on-sediment substrate. Plenty of them.