Field Meeting Report: Thanet 25 - 26 June, 2005

Authors

Celia Pain

Issue

9

Page

3

Editorial

Authors

Ian Killeen

Issue

9

Page

2

So here we are with a bumper edition of Mollusc World.

Limapontia senestra. Immature specimens. r: rhinophore. v: vane in front of rhinophore. Dorsal and dorso-lateral pale marks distinct; some coalescing into lines. Uncertain if vane found on populations other than in Fleet lagoon, Dorset. August 2003.

Species

Limapontia senestra

Photographer / copyright holder

H.C.Marshall

Limapontia senestra. Mature specimen; r: digitiform rhinophore and slight ridge behind it; b: bulge marks position of bursa copulatrix; c: constriction in metapodium (sometimes). Immature specimen; vane in front of rhinophore. Fleet, Dorset. Aug. 2003.

Species

Limapontia senestra

Photographer / copyright holder

H.C.Marshall

Akera bullata. Very large specimens, 60mm and 80mm long, bred in aquarium from wild stock at Oban, Scotland.

Species

Akera bullata

Photographer / copyright holder

J.C.A.Craik

Akera bullata. Shell height 31mm. Specimen with spire hardly protruding beyond final whorl. Recently dead with intact orange-brown periostracum, and spiral break in whorls sealed by membrane. Seawater pond, Oban, Scotland. April 2010. Leg. Clive Craik.

Species

Akera bullata

Photographer / copyright holder

I.F. Smith

Akera bullata. Height 31mm. Shell thin, flexible, fragile, translucent, with orange-brown periostracum. Only sculpture many fine prosocline growth lines. Aperture almost as long as height. Seawater pond, Oban, Scotland. April 2010. Leg. Clive Craik.

Species

Akera bullata

Photographer / copyright holder

I.F. Smith

Akera bullata. Shell height 31mm. Specimen with spire hardly protruding beyond final whorl. Recently dead with intact orange-brown periostracum. Seawater pond, Oban, Scotland. April 2010. Leg. Clive Craik.

Species

Akera bullata

Photographer / copyright holder

I.F. Smith

Akera bullata. Thousands of dead shells littering the strandline mixed with dead Zostera. Fleet lagoon, Dorset. April 2012. A feature of this site since at least 1853.

Species

Akera bullata

Photographer / copyright holder

Malcolm Storey, www.bioimages.org.uk

Akera bullata. Spire wound round a central cavity instead of solid columella. Fleet lagoon, Dorset. April 2012. (Stacked image).

Species

Akera bullata

Photographer / copyright holder

Malcolm Storey, www.bioimages.org.uk

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