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Opaque, chalk-white pallial tentacles. Diagnostic of Patella depressa if also has black or black-brown foot.

Species

Patella depressa

Photographer / copyright holder

Steve Wilkinson

Close up showing white marginal tentacles of Patella depressa

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Field meeting at Sandwich Bay, Kent 5-6 June 2004

Authors

Ron Boyce

Issue

Page

Editorial

Authors

Ian Killeen

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I’m pleased to see so many field meeting reports in this issue of Mollusc World.

Polycera quadrilineata with intricate black pattern. Sublittoral, 6 metres. August 2012. Whitby, Yorkshire.

Species

Polycera quadrilineata (O. F. Müller, 1776)

Photographer / copyright holder

Paula Lightfoot

Dorsal view of Lepidochitona cinerea

Species

Lepidochitona cinerea

Photographer / copyright holder

Steve Wilkinson

Dorsal view of a pale specimen of Lepidochitona cinerea. Actual length 10mm. Collected North Devon just outside Ilfracombe.

Dorsal view of specimen of Lepidochitona cinerea with deposits of iron / manganese concretions

Species

Lepidochitona cinerea

Photographer / copyright holder

Steve Wilkinson

Geitodoris planata. Unusually bright yellow specimen. Whitish acid producing papillae discernible. Other tubercles smaller than the largest found on Archidoris pseudoargus. August 2012. Oosterschelde, Netherlands.

Species

Geitodoris planata

Photographer / copyright holder

John de Jong. www.jojodive.nl

Image of girdle and valve valve sculpture in Acanthochitona fascicularis

Species

Acanthochitona fascicularis

Photographer / copyright holder

Steve Wilkinson

Close up of girdle and valve sculpture. Note the rounded shape of the granulations on the valves.

Image of girdle and valve valve sculpture in Acanthochitona crinita

Species

Acanthochitona crinita

Photographer / copyright holder

Steve Wilkinson

Close up of girdle and valve sculpture. Note the elongated shape of the granulations on the valves

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