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Name/Title

Paramoudra

A paramoudra trace fossil.

Accession No

TM2003.168

Name/Title

Paramoudra

A paramoudra trace fossil.

Accession No

TM2003.167

Name/Title

Nautilus, Paper

A thin calcareous false shell of the paper nautilus (Argonauta nodosa) . The shell is an opaque white colour with parts stained dark brown, The whole shell is covered with radiating rows of low tubercles.

Accession No

TM.1997.318

Name/Title

Fossil

A fossilised piece of Dentalium Otamaringaense, collected from the mouth of the Urenui River in 1929. The fossil is a ridged white shell with a plug of darker material in its centre. The white shell is wrapped with a piece of grey material which looks a little like concrete.

Accession No

PA2015.053

Name/Title

Crab

A small female paua sea spider (Elamena producta).

Accession No

PA2007.249

Name/Title

Paramoudra

A paramoudra trace fossil with a hole at the top and cylindrical cavity at centre. The cavity has a porous, bone coloured, fossilised surface. At the bottom of the cavity are several worm-like forms. The fossil is ovoid in shape when viewed from above and has distinctive nipped lower half when viewed from the side.

Accession No

PA2004.078

Name/Title

Seahorse

A small dried and faded large-bellied seahorse (Hippocampus abdominalis) specimen. It is a grey-brown colour. The tail curls at the ends.

Accession No

A98.749

Name/Title

Large-bellied seahorse (Hippocampus abdominalis)

A small dried and faded large-bellied seahorse (Hippocampus abdominalis) specimen. The tail folds back under the body of the seahorse. It is a light brown colour.

Accession No

A98.748

Name/Title

Spiny pipefish (Solegnathus spinosissimus)

A dried and faded spiny pipefish (Solegnathus spinosissimus) specimen. It is a grey colour with black specks. The specks are sand adhered to the surface. There is a slight curl at the end of the tail.

Accession No

A98.747

Name/Title

Spiny pipefish (Solegnathus spinosissimus)

A dried and faded Spiny pipefish (Solegnathus spinosissimus) specimen. Light brown in colour with the odd spot of darker colouring. It has a long snout. The tail curls at the end.

Accession No

A98.746

Name/Title

Vertebrae, Whale

A vertebrae from an unidentified species of whale. The vertebrae is slightly encrusted with soil and the tips of the bone are battered and numerous pieces of bone are missing.

Accession No

A97.713

Name/Title

Jaw, Shark (Isistius brasiliensis)

A dried jaw from a cookie cutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis).

Accession No

A96.988

Name/Title

Starfish, (Stichaster australis)

Salmon pink Stichaster australis starfish. The starfish has a tough leathery skin with numerous rounded granules embedded in it. The starfish has eleven arms and some of the arms are shorter than others. The shortest is only 5.5cm long and the longest is 9cm.

Accession No

A96.335

Name/Title

Concretion, Iron

A fossilized iron concretion which resembles the shape of a human finger.

Accession No

A92.975

Name/Title

Shells

Three unmodified mottled cowrie shells.

Accession No

A86.987

Name/Title

Egg, Ostrich

A large ostrich egg. The egg is cream coloured. There is a hole at one end of the egg.

Accession No

A86.459

Name/Title

Skull, Leopard Seal

A skull and mandible of a Leopard Seal (Hydrurga leptonyx). The skull has been broken into several pieces before being glued back together and the mandible appears to have been broken in half. Three top teeth are missing and some small chips of bone are also missing from various places. There are a number of pencil marks on the bone which it appears were used to help glue the skull together.

Accession No

A78.578

Name/Title

Skeleton, Fur Seal

A skeleton of a juvenile New Zealand Fur Seal (Arctocephalus forsteri).

Accession No

A78.577

Name/Title

Scapula, Dolphin

A water eroded scapula from an unidentified species of dolphin.

Accession No

A78.573

Name/Title

Mandibles, Kurī

Left and right mandibles of a kurī (Polynesian dog). Two incisors are missing. The mandibles are attached to an uncatalogued kurī cranium.

Accession No

A78.044

Name/Title

Skink

A Striped skink specimen (Leidopisma striatum) preserved in formalin. It has a brown back with grey dorsolateral bands. Ventral side speckled. Tail is cream. Appears to have become discoloured - probably due to the lizard having shed its tail and regrown another.

Accession No

A70.736

Name/Title

Eggs, Tuatara (?)

Two eggs in formalin in a glass specimen jar. The eggs have been tentatively identified as Tuatara eggs.

Accession No

A70.691

Name/Title

Frog, Hochstetter's

A Hochstetter's frog ( Leiopelma hochstetteri ) specimen preserved in formalin and contained in a glass specimen jar. The specimen has a dark brown back and its ventral side is dark brown and speckled. The outer layer appears to be flaking off. Toes partially webbed.

Accession No

A70.685

Name/Title

Snake, Sea

A yellow bellied sea snake (Pelamus platurus) specimen preserved in formalin and held in a tubular plastic container. The snake appears a mixture of light yellow and dark yellow. An accompanying handwritten note with the specimen reads " Pelamus platurus (Yellow bellied sea snake) /No data but probably one of 5 found on Taranaki coast during the summer of 1933 (Philips 1941). "

Has been transfered to glass jar with white lid and filled with 70% ethanol

Accession No

A70.680

Name/Title

Bat, Long-tailed

A stuffed long-tailed, long-eared native bat which is mounted in a black wooden box with a glass front. The box also contains dried plants.

Accession No

A70.641