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11 Tectura virginea. Shell-lengths 6mm & 9mm. North Yorkshire and Menai Strait.

Shell exteriors whitish (top image) and bluish, with light-brown chains and, peripherally, radiating pinkish rays.

 

1: cephalic tentacles, slightly wrinkled as not fully extended.

2: snout.

3: outer lip expanded as translucent oral veil on substrate; contains many sensory structures; possible functions to detect Lithothamnion, locate mouth precisely to avoid overlap with previous feeding pit without missing part of food, and to retain loose fragments (function of anterior scraper-jaw on Patella spp.; missing from T. virginea).

4: side of foot lacks epipodial tentacles.

5: edge of mantle-skirt white with reddish bands that produce corresponding rays of shell.

 

Full SPECIES DESCRIPTION at: flic.kr/p/tg3YWR

Key id. features at: flic.kr/p/sYAote

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Uploaded on May 20, 2015
Taken sometime in 2014