Cerastoderma edule. Shell length 23mm. Exhalent (upper) and inhalent (lower) siphons. Camera-style eyes with single lens and retina on sensory tentacles detect moving shadows of predators. Mouth of Dee Estuary, Cheshire. October 2011.

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