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 twenty-one mollusc species, both gastropoda and bi-valve, largely found in local and national waters but also occuring elsewhere.
1. NZ helmet shell | Pupumauneene, Semicassis Pyrum
2-3. Tiger shell, Calliostoma Tigris, Mount Maunganui
4. Circular Saw shell, Astaea heliotropium, Mount Maunganui
5. Circular Saw shell, Astaea heliotropium, Mount Maunganui
6-7. Pearl tochus, Sea snail, Indo Pacific
8. Southern Siphon Whelk, Penion Mandarinus, NZ
9-10. Tiger shell, Maurea Chathanesis
11. Arab Volute, Alcithoe Arabica, NZ
12. Money Cowrie, Cypraea Moneta, South Pacific
13-14. Ram's Horn Squid, Spirula Spirula
15. Spider shell, Murex Zelandicus, Mount Maunganui
16-17. Deer Cowrie, Cypraea Vitellus, Indo-Pacific
18. Opal Top, Cantharidus Opalus, Mount Maunganui
19-20. Queen Scallop, Pecten Novaeze landiae, Mount Maunganui
21. Common Spider Conch, Lambis Lambis, Indo-Pacific NZ
max dimension: 180mm
subject area: Social Science, Science
specific themes: Sea, Shells, Mollusc, Mount Maunganui, New Zealand
handling collection number: HC118/1-21
Why not get your hands on...
Collection of shells HC113 / 1-36 > https://www.handsontauranga.co.nz/hot-items/putaiao-science/collection-of-new-zealand-shells-hc1131-36/
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/
