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Aeolidia papillosa. Length 28mm. Ginger form. Body and rhinophores heavily coated with dark brown powdering. Brown head lacks pale triangle. Cerata extended and attenuated, not flattened. Mersey Estuary. Sept. 2010.

Species

Aeolidia papillosa (Linnaeus, 1761)

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I.F. Smith

Tergipes tergipes. Length 2.5mm. Digestive gland orange-brown in some cerata, others empty. Colour reflects that of hydroid consumed. White ovotestis in translucent body. Flanks, rear of head and rhinophores tinted brown. Sept. 2010. LWS, Mersey Estuary.

Species

Tergipes tergipes

Photographer / copyright holder

I.F. Smith

A live trapping method for the protected european slug, Geomalacus maculosus Allman 1843 (Arionidae)

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A live trapping method for the protected european slug, Geomalacus maculosus Allman 1843 (Arionidae)

Volume

40

Part

4

Page from

483

Authors

RORY J. McDONNELL

MIKE J. GORMALLY

Year

(2011)

Date published

Tue, 03/01/2011 - 00:00

Tergipes tergipes. Brown digestive gland ziz-zagging left and right to connect single cerata resembles zig-zag stem of Obelia geniculata (hydroid) on which it often feeds. March 2011. LWS, Menai Strait, Wales.

Species

Tergipes tergipes

Photographer / copyright holder

I.F. Smith

Tergipes tergipes. Length 2.5mm. Dark brown digestive gland and light brown contents of cerata resemble hydroid. Two spawn capsules, greatly swollen by water after laying, resemble reproductive bodies of hydroid. Sept. 2010. LWS, Mersey Estuary.

Species

Tergipes tergipes

Photographer / copyright holder

I.F. Smith

Tergipes tergipes. Foot (edge wrinkled in image) narrower than body. No propodial expansion. March 2011. LWS, Menai Strait, Wales.

Species

Tergipes tergipes

Photographer / copyright holder

I.F. Smith

Cerithiopsis tubercularis. 1.4mm high juvenile with 4 smooth whorls on protoconch. On fine red seaweed growing on stone among muddy sand. Menai Strait, Wales, March 2010.

Species

Cerithiopsis tubercularis

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I.F. Smith

Cerithiopsis tubercularis. m: mouth; introverted proboscis. l: yellow opercular lobe. g: grey dorsum of body (and head). Band of yellow spots behind eye. Anterior of foot deeply cleft into “duckbill”. On fine red seaweed. Menai Strait, Wales, Aug. 2010.

Species

Cerithiopsis tubercularis

Photographer / copyright holder

I.F. Smith

Cerithiopsis tubercularis. Foot bends at transverse groove across middle. Eye on thickened base of thin tentacle. On fine red seaweed growing on stone among muddy sand. Menai Strait, Wales, Aug. 2010.

Species

Cerithiopsis tubercularis

Photographer / copyright holder

I.F. Smith

Cerithiopsis tubercularis. No snout. Small respiratory siphon, with reflected bifid tip showing black lining, in siphonal channel of shell. 3 spiral lines on base of shell (grey lines indicate). On fine red seaweed. Menai Strait, Wales, Aug. 2010.

Species

Cerithiopsis tubercularis

Photographer / copyright holder

I.F. Smith