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The shape of the shell is triangular and elongate with rounded edges. The shell ...
2-3 inches. shell long and somewhat pear shaped; outside shell is bluish-black.
The shells are blue with some brown streaky bands. The beaks of the shell are ...
This is a wide-ranging turtle of the eastern US. It is the only map turtle that ...
Found in the tidepools in Avalon bay clinging to an empty
Diameter may reach up to 50cm, but frequently much smaller.Body has plump, ...
Freshwater mussels spotted along the river ...
Trichomya is a monotypic genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family ...
specialises in mussels and oysters.
Minutes after I found the edible mussel ...
, blade-like blunt-tipped bill specially adapted for hammering and opening ...
legs and strong broad red bills used for smashing or prising open molluscs ...
Common Gull nests in a variety of habitats ...
. Another common name for this bird is ...
for smashing or prising open molluscs such as
Urticina crassicornis is usually molted with green and red, but sometimes they ...
The Australian white ibis has a white body and plumage and a black head and ...
A common migrant and winter visitor to ...
. Another common name for this bird is ...
patterns. Another common name for this ...
"The ochre sea star or purple sea star is a
detritivores (species that eat dead material on the bottom), and even to a ...
photosynthetic partner, usually either a green alga (
" and "sea star" essentially refer to members of the class Asteroidea. However, ...
open molluscs such as mussels or for ...
Giant green anemones have tube-like, columnar bodies, topped with a round cap ...
With the characteristic shape of the blenids and cryptic coloration, with ...
for benthic invertebrates, such as crustaceans, polychaete worms, and ...
, scavenging for dead or weak animals, fish,