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New Zealand shells

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New Zealand shells

These shells represent some of common wash-ups retrieved from beaches around New Zealand.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Shellfish – The mollusc family, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/8010/new-zealand-shells (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 2 March 2009.