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.

Antalis vulgaris (da Costa, 1778) - Tusk shell (Marine Snail Images)
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Tusk shell
Antalis vulgaris
- shell 1

Tusk shell
Antalis vulgaris
- shell 2

Tusk shell
Antalis vulgaris
- shell 3

Tusk shell
Antalis vulgaris
- in museum collection 1

An unusual shaped offshore species that doesn't live between the tide marks. It grows to about an inch or more in length. Not a common find on the shore because of its fragility and difficulty in spotting, but it can be found washed up along the high water mark of sandy beaches all around the coast, if your lucky.

Shell photographed was washed up with shell sand, at the very east corner of Par Beach, near St. Austell, Cornwall. 30.04.09.

Also photograph from small late 19th Century shell collection at Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance, Cornwall. 22.09.11. Species was labelled as Dentalium tarentinum Lamarck, 1818. Historically, there are two records local to Penzance from between 1880 and 1909 by Mrs. A. D. B. Knocker from Marazion, SW5130; and before 1885 by E. D. Marquand in Mount's Bay, SW52. Ref: ERICA database.

Scientific and European Names:
Antalis vulgaris, Dentalium tarentinum, Tusk shell, Geribde Olifantstand, Gewone Stoottand, Zwakgeribde Olifantstand, Dent d'elephant, Gemeiner Elefantenzahn.

Antalis vulgaris Tusk Shell Marine Snail Images
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