LIFE ON A CART-RUT SHELL

Cart-rut shells (Dicathais orbita) are an abundant species found on rocky shores at the lower tide zone and below. The east coast form is strongly sculptured with coarse spiral ribs, an ideal place for encrusting species to occasionally establish and in turn create a micro habitat for those species able to withstand the strong wave action that is a feature of this species habitat. A 7cm Cart-rut shell

Unidentified anemones

Barnacle - Austrobalanus imperator

Unidentified amphipod

Unidentified anemones

Hydroids - Coryne sp

Unidentified amphipod

Bivalve - Lasaea australis

Unidentified juvenile bivalve

Nudibranch (Eubranchus sp?) feeding on hydroids

Barnacle - Amphibalanus amphitrite

Nudibranch (Trinchesia sp?) feeding on hydroids

Encrusting Bryozoan

Unidentified worm

Juvenile bivalve (Pinctada sp)

Unidentified Ascidean inside shell of Megabalanus tintinnabulum

Serpulid worm Galeolaria geminoea

Unidentified barnacle

Unidentified amphipod

Unidentified Polychaete worm - Spionidae?

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