Capulus ungaricus
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Length = 33mm. Collected from Inchmarnock, Bute.
Capulus ungaricus
<em>Capulus ungaricus</em> (Linnaeus, 1758)
Capulus ungaricus
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Length = 33mm. Collected from Inchmarnock, Bute.
Capulus ungaricus
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Length = 33mm. Collected from Inchmarnock, Bute.
Capulus ungaricus
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Length = 10mm. Collected from Off Cumbrae Coast on 01/03/1990.
Capulus ungaricus
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Length = 10mm. Collected from Off Cumbrae Coast on 01/03/1990.
Capulus ungaricus
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Length = 10mm. Collected from Off Cumbrae Coast on 01/03/1990.
Capulus ungaricus
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Length = 10mm. Collected from Off Cumbrae Coast on 01/03/1990.
Capulus ungaricus
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Length = 42mm. Collected from 55o55.5'N 8o39.5'W on 05/09/1979.
Capulus ungaricus
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Length = 42mm. Collected from 55o55.5'N 8o39.5'W on 05/09/1979.
Capulus ungaricus
Vernacular names
Hungarian cap shell
Distribution and status
Widespread. Occurs all around Europe from Norway south and into the Mediterranean.
The map provided here shows the distribution of the species based on Conchological Society data.
Ecology and behaviour
The species is occasionally found on stones but generally occurs attached to other living molluscs such as Modiolus, Chlamys, Pecten or Turritella. Collects food (including pseudofaeces of its host) using the proboscis but is also capable of filtering particles from the water.
Key identification features
- Cap shaped shell with small spiral coil at the apex
Taxon version key
[NBNSYS0000174365]
Sort order
2000
Taxonomic group
Marine snail
Fragile shell up to about 20mm long and the same across. It is cap shaped with a small spiral coil of about two whorls at the apex. Shell is white but covered in a straw coloured periostracum.