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.

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Banded weedsnail
Cingula trifasciata
- live shell 1

Banded weedsnail
Cingula trifasciata
- live shell close-up 1

Banded weedsnail
Cingula trifasciata
- under rock / in pool 1

Banded weedsnail
Cingula trifasciata
- under rock / in pool 2

Banded weedsnail
Cingula trifasciata
- under rock / in pool 3

Banded weedsnail
Cingula trifasciata
- 4.2mm shell / close-up 1

Banded weedsnail
Cingula trifasciata
- shell cut out 1

This small species of marine snail can be found on the middle and lowershore; quite common, usually found under rocks and stones in pools left by the tide, and especially so if there is some red algae, its food plant, growing in the pool.

Images of species taken on the middleshore at Batten Beach, Moutbatten, Plymouth, Devon, 18.03.06; from under a rock at Little London, Marazion near Penzance, Cornwall, 13.11.10; also shells from sand mason tubes from Marazion, Cornwall, 10.03.12.

Scientific and European Names:
Cingula trifasciata, Banded weedsnail.

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