Marine Life
Sea Tulip
Sea tulips are filter feeders and prefer wave and current swept areas or cooler water where they can attach themselves to rock.
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Kina
The Kina is a round shelled animal covered in spikes. Divers should be wary not rest or press against a Kina as it can puncture and cause injury.
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Seven-Armed Seastar
This large is New Zealand's largest seastar it's is light blue or yellowish brown in colour and has large orange coloured tube feet.
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Shield Shell
It's shell is often completely covered in black velvety flesh, but can sometimes be seen through a gap in the covering.
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Spaghetti Worm
The tentacles of this worm resemble spaghetti and are usually the only part of the animal visible, the rest is permanently burrowed into some soft substartes.
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Squat Lobster
Thick swarms of juvenile squat lobsters or whale krill as it is sometime known, come down our coast and into the harbour over a small period in the summer.
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Squid
Small squid are sometimes seen foraging about the water column on night dives around the harbour entrance.
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Stalk-Eyed Mud Crab
Small tunneling systems are sometimes seen on muddy bottom inside the Otago harbour including the Wellers rock area.
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Three and Three Seastar
The three-and-three seastar is a small sea star its colour ranges with different shades of orange. It has six arms, three of which maybe smaller than the other three.
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Triangle Crab
It is named after its triangle-shaped shell which is bright red, however they are often covered in other marine growth.
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Triton Nudibranch
The triton nudibranch is easily identified by its large orange body with small tufts of gills along its back ridges.
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Variable nudibranch
The variable nudibranch comes in many colour formations, most commonly locally they are a smooth pale white, and can be found with brown staining along its back.
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