Hands on Tauranga offers students stimulating and original learning opportunities with real museum objects that support the New Zealand curriculum at primary and secondary school level.
A collection of thirty-eight New Zealand native species of mollusc, both gastropoda and bi-valve. Species include Silver Paua, Scallop, Tuatua, mud snail, black nerita and violet snail.
1. Scallop, Pecten Novaezelandiae, Mount Maunganui
2. Paua, Haliotis Iris, Mount Maunganui
3. Paua, Haliotis Iris, Mount Maunganui
4. Scallop, Pecten Novaezelandiae, Mount Maunganui
5. Sea Nymph, Panopea zelandica, Mount Maunganui
6. Deep Burrower | Tuatua, Paphies Subtriangulata, NZ
7. Sea Snail, Struthiolaria Vermis, Mount Maunganui
8. Arab Volute, Alcithoe arabica, NZ
9. Silver paua, Haliotis Australis, Mount Maunganui
10. Bassina Yatei, NZ
11. Fresh water mussel, NZ
12. Alcithoe, NZ
13. Xenophalium pyrum, NZ
14. Blue ribbed mussel, Aulacomya Maoriana, NZ
15. Large sea snail, Argobuccinum Tumidum, NZ
16. Cellana denticulate, NZ
17. Ostrich foot | Totorere, Struthrolaria populosa, NZ
18. Cat's eye, Lunella Smaragda, NZ
19. Cellana radians flava, NZ
20. Cantharidus purpuratus, Mount Maunganui
21. Ambiguous trophon, NZ
22. Green top shell, Trochus Viridis, NZ
23. Morning star, Tawera spissa, NZ
24. Large wedge shell, MAcomona liliana, NZ
25. Murex, Mruexsul octogonus, Mount Maunganui
26. Zeacolpus pagoda, NZ
27. Sea snail whelk, Cominella adspersa, NZ
28. Dark rock shell, Haustrum haustorium, NZ
29. Whelk, Flava buccinulum, NZ
30. Fan shell, Pecten Zelandiae, Mount Maunganui
31. Spotted tiger shell, Maurea Punctulata, NZ
32. Mud snail, Zeancumantus Iutulentus, NZ
33. Myadora Striata
34. Black Nerita, Nerita Melanotragus, Mount Maunganui
35. Spiral univalve, Cominella Viragata, Mount Maunganui
36. Divaricella Cumingi, Mount Maunganui
37. Violet sea snail, Janthina Globosa, Mount Maunganui
38. Violet sea snail, Janthina Globosa, Mount Maunganui
Learn more
A guide to gathering paua from NZ fisheries > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsH1QnmoTQ8
max dimension: Paua - 150mm
subject area: Social Science, Science
specific themes: Sea, New Zealand, Shells, Mount Maunganui, Tauranga
handling collection number: HC113
Why not get your hands on...
Collection of shells HC118 / 1-21 > https://www.handsontauranga.co.nz/hot-items/putaiao-science/collection-of-shells-hc1181-22/
Collection of kina (sea urchins) HC116 > https://www.handsontauranga.co.nz/hot-items/nga-toi-the-arts/collection-of-kina-sea-urchins-hc116/
Shells, Paper Nautilus and Cask shells HC117 > https://www.handsontauranga.co.nz/hot-items/nga-toi-the-arts/shells-paper-nautilus-cask-hc1171-2/
What A Shell Can Tell book HC259 > https://www.handsontauranga.co.nz/hot-items/nga-toi-the-arts/what-a-shell-can-tell-book-hc259/
At the Beach book HC242 > https://www.handsontauranga.co.nz/hot-items/putaiao-science/at-the-beach-picture-book-hc242/
