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Kōrero: Estuaries

Mud snails

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Mud snails live in large numbers on estuarine mudflats. When the tide goes out they eat twice their weight in mud each hour, digesting the detritus and bacteria and depositing the remains in a spaghetti-like trail.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Estuaries – The estuary ecosystem, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/4621/mud-snails (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.