Dorsal view of a pale specimen of Lepidochitona cinerea. Actual length 10mm. Collected North Devon just outside Ilfracombe.
Close up of girdle and valve sculpture. Note the rounded shape of the granulations on the valves.
Close up of girdle and valve sculpture. Note the elongated shape of the granulations on the valves
Photograph taken 27th September 2007 on wst coast of Ireland
Photographed 26th September 2007 on the west coast of Ireland
Who knows what a snail thinks
as it sits immobile for countless hours.
Is it contemplating its umbillicus
like the Hindus and their navels?
On page 22 of MW8 “The BAP Priority Species Review” I am correctly listed as the main author of the review or Omphiscola glabra, however I have been listed as being an employee o
OUT OF MY SHELL by S. P. Dance. Pub. C - Shells - 3 2OO5 212 pp. ISBN 0-9769567-1-3. Paperback, price (Unknown at present)
Mollusc World 9; page 23
Many Victorians compiled “Commonplace Books”, — Scrapbooks which they filled with quotations from favourite novels or poems, excerpts from books or newspapers which interested or
