APHOTOMARINE

Live specimens of this often strikingly colourful shell can commonly be found on the lowershore and under the rocky overhangs of reefs all over the region, its shell can be found washed up on beaches close to rocky outcrops. The common colour is a purplish-blue, but orangey-red forms, and a rarer pure white form can be found.

Images taken all over the westcountry, good locations include Battery Rocks, Penzance; Spit Point, St. Austell; and around Fowey, Cornwall and rocky shores around Plymouth Sound, including Batten Bay, Jennicliff Beach and Wembury Beach.

European and Scientific Names:
Calliostoma zizyphinum, Painted top shell, Spitzkreiselschnecken, Priktolhoren, Troque-jujube, Trompo, Trottola zizifina.

Calliostoma zizyphinum Painted Top Shell Marine Snail Images

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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.

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.