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Mussel bed

Wild mussels growing offshore from Great Barrier Island, NZ.

A bed of wild mussels growing offshore from Great Barrier Island, Aotearoa New Zealand. As well as growing on rocks and wharf piles, mussels can attach to one another to form beds (or reefs) such as this one.

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Rights: Shaun Lee, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalistNZ 
Published: 14 June 2013Size: 1.76 MB
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