APHOTOMARINE

An Educational Photographic Resource and Stock Image Library
of the Sea, Maritime Environment, Marine and Rockpool Life in the
Coastal Waters of South-West England by David Fenwick.

Heteranomia squamula (Linnaeus, 1758) - Prickly saddle oyster
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Prickly saddle oyster
Heteranomia squamula
- live animal upperside 1

Prickly saddle oyster
Heteranomia squamula
- live animal underside 1

Prickly saddle oyster
Heteranomia squamula
- live on mussel 1

Images of species taken at Spit Point, Par, near St. Austell, Cornwall. 21.02.09.

Species may be found attached to kelp holdfasts and to flotsam that has drifted across the Atlantic. May also occur with Hiatella arctica, Wrinkled rock borer, on flotsam and kelp holdfasts.

Large specimens that appear to be this species, which may or may not be found on plastic flotsam, may be Pododesmus striata.

Heteranomia squamula Prickly Saddle Oyster
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