Collections

Class: Bivalvia. 3 specimens. All have both valves present, still connected by the hinge. Buff coloured and oval in shape.

Class: Gastropoda. 1 specimen. Small and oval-shaped, white and glossy with the aperture running the length of the shell. Can be found in the sublittoral zone in muddy sand up to 1500m.

Class: Gastropoda. 6 specimens. Minute, oval-shaped, white and glossy.

Class: Gastropoda. 8 specimens. Turreted, spire shaped with well defined whorls and strong costae which created a spiked netted effect.

Class: Gastropoda. 5 specimens. These specimens are specifically the var. nana. Oval shaped with the wide aperture running the length of the shell. Off white in colour and translucent. Very delicate.

Class: Bivalvia. 1 specimen. Right valve. Very small, off white and translucent. Fan shaped with asymmetrical 'ears', the anterior has a very distinct notch while the posterior does not.

Class: Gastropoda. 2 specimens. Slender spire shells with very well defined whorls and clear horizontal, spiralling striae. One is white and one is sand coloured.

Class: Gastropoda. 5 specimens. White and glossy cylindrical shell with a wide aperture stretching the length of the shell. The apex is more depressed than on other varieties of Retusa.

Class: Gastropoda. 6 specimens. Very small, white and glossy. Cylindrical with a very wide aperture running the length of the shell, almost so one side of the shell is completely open.

Class: Gastropoda. 2 specimens. 1 large, 1 very small and thin. Cap-shaped or conical, oval from overhead. White;cream interior on the large example, orange-brown on the small. Ridged.