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Monday 20 June 2016

Arabic Volute

Have you ever found one of these shells on the beach and wondered what it was? 

 Well, wonder no longer. 

 It is an Arabic Volute. The Otago Museum posts an 'object of the day' and today it was this wonderful shell that I used to find on beaches in Manawatu.

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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous22 June 2016 at 17:42

    Hi Mr McAulay,
    Wow this is a amazing blog post I really like this blog post. I hope you had fun making this blog post.

    From Roman

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  2. Anonymous23 June 2016 at 14:27

    That is really interesting are they the one that if you put your ear to it it sounds like the sea.

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  3. Anonymous26 June 2016 at 19:33

    Hi Mr McAulay,
    What an amazing blog post. I really love that shell the squiggles that are on the shell are awsome I like it, I would love to find one on a beach sometime I also got a question for you. Can you find these shells in different other beaches?
    Keep up the hard work!


    From:Tai

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    1. Anonymous26 June 2016 at 20:11

      Hi Tai,

      What a great question. I have found them on beaches near Napier and on Himatangi beach in the Manawatu. I found some more information and here is the link.

      http://www.marinelife.ac.nz/species/697

      It would seem that they are found all around New Zealand but mainly where on soft seabed near the coast.

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  4. Anonymous15 August 2016 at 18:56

    Kia Ora Mr McAulay’s

    I am Greanne from the South Island West Coast, just down the road from you. I really enjoyed your information on Arabic Volute. I have found shells like this before, I never knew what they were called, but now I do. I guess it is true that you learn something new everyday.

    I have a few suggestion for this piece of work. First of all you could make this one paragraph rather than 3 lines. Also you could maybe do an information report so that we could learn more about this shell. I have found a shell that when you place your air in the hole it sound like the waves at the beach. Is this shell the same that you have researched.

    Here is a link to my blog: http://karorogreannew.blogspot.co.nz/

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  5. Anonymous16 August 2016 at 18:46

    Kia Ora Mr McAulay and Room 7
    My name is Matthew. I go to Karoro School that's really near to your school but you probably know that so let's get on with it. Marine Biology is something that I’ve taken a liking to in the past year and when I saw this post about the shell it caught my eye. I don’t know a lot about the names of shells so this was a good post to put up.

    I found your post on this shell very interesting because last year I was working on a Marine Biology badge for my science badge. One of the tasks for this badge was to create a poster showing different shells and their names. Although I completed the task there were a few shells I couldn’t find the name of, so this would’ve been very useful last year!

    Next I would like to say I really enjoyed the way you showed an image of the shell as well as told us what type of shell it was. If I could point one thing out to maybe you could put in more information with your picture. This information could be something like where the most common places in New Zealand or the world where they are found.

    I’m really enjoying reading through your blogs and hope that this can continue throughout the rest of the term.

    Regards
    Matthew-Karoro School

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