Today an event that I had never seen before occurred on Taylor Beach. Millions of tiny Euphasids or Krill ended up on a 600 metre section of the beach North of Taylor Road . Many of the krill were still alive , but the majority were dead and they were accumulating as the tide came in. I have no idea what the cause of this is, but it was reported to have happened to the north on Witty’s Beach as well today.
Northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica) | |
Scientific classification | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Superorder: | Eucarida |
Order: | Euphausiacea Dana, 1852 |