APHOTOMARINE
An educational resource dedicated mainly to the photography
and diversity of marine life that can be found in coastal waters
and intertidal areas of Great Britain and Ireland by David Fenwick.
Bittium
Bittium reticulatum (da Costa, 1778) - Needle whelk
Bittium simplex (Jeffreys, 1867) - A Needle whelk
Cerithioidea (Superfamily) > Cerithiidae (Family) > Cerithiinae (Subfamily)
Cerithium
Cerithium litteratum (Born, 1778)
- Stocky cerith or Lettered horn shell (non-native species)
Cerithioidea (Superfamily) > Turritellidae (Family)
- Tower, Auger, Screw shells
Turritella
Turritella communis (Risso, 1826) - Tower or Auger shell
Epitonioidea (Superfamily) > Epitoniidae (Family)
- Wentletraps
Epitonium
Epitonium clathratulum (Kanmacher in G Adams, 1798)
- Small wentletrap
Epitonium clathrus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Common wentletrap
Epitonium trevelyanum (Thompson W., 1840)
- Trevelyan's wentletrap
Epitonium turtonis (Turton, 1819)
- Turton's wentletrap
Epitonium species comparison -1 (click to view)
Epitonium species comparison -2 (click to view)
Epitonioidea (Superfamily) > Janthinidae (Family)
- Violet snails
Janthina
Janthina janthina (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Common violet sea-snail (pelagic species)
Janthina exigua Lamarck, 1816 - Ridged violet sea-snail (pelagic species)
Janthina globosa Swainson, 1822 - A Violet sea-snail
(pelagic species)
Janthina pallida W. Thompson, 1840
- Pale violet sea-snail (pelagic species)
Eulimoidea (Superfamily) > Aclididae (Family)
Aclis
Aclis ascaris (Turton, 1819) - Little aclis
Aclis minor (Brown, 1827) - Glossy aclis
Triphoroidea (Superfamily) > Cerithiopsidae (Family)
Cerithiopsis
Cerithiopsis jeffreysi Watson, 1885
Cerithiopsis tubercularis - Horn shell (Montagu, 1803)
Triphoroidea (Superfamily) > Triphoridae (Family)
Marshallora
Marshallora adversa (Montagu, 1803)
- Reversed horn shell
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UK HORIZON SPECIES
Cerithioidea (Superfamily) > Cerithiidae (Family) > Cerithiinae (Subfamily)
Cerithium
Cerithium vulgatum Bruguière, 1792
- Common or Atlantic Cerith (UK HORIZON SPECIES)
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Other members of the Caenogastropoda
(Order Unassigned)
From the authors collection of foreign shells,
species not recorded in the United Kingdom.
Cerithioidea (Superfamily) > Cerithiidae (Family) > Cerithiinae (Subfamily)
Cerithium atratum (Born, 1778) - Florida cerith (Brazil)
Cerithium muscarum Say, 1832
- Flyspeck cerith (Florida, USA)
Epitonioidea (Superfamily) > Epitoniidae (Family)
Epitonium angulatum (Say, 1831)
- Angulate wentletrap (Florida, USA)
Gyroscala lamellosa (Lamarck, 1822) - Lamellose, Perplexed or Banded wentletrap (Canary Islands)
Gyroscala rupicola (Kurtz, 1860)
- Brown-band wentletrap (New York, USA)
