Common British Seashells |
Common terms and phrases
acorn barnacles adductor marks adductor muscle animal Aristotle's Lantern beak bivalves Bladder Wrack Blunt Gaper bottoms brown burrow Chlamys Cockle colour Common Gaper Common Mussel Common Whelk coraline cowries creature Cuttlefish Cyprina deep water dog-winkles dwarf winkles edible egg capsules epidermis favours fish foot found on sandy fronds gastropods Goose Barnacle Grey half an inch high water hinge hinge-plate hole horse-mussel inches in length inches long inside Laminaria left valve limpets long siphons low-water mark mantle moon mouth mussel Necklace-shells notched wrack numbers Otter-shell Oval Piddock oyster periwinkles plankton Plate proboscis Razor-shell rear resembles right valve rocks round sand sandy beaches Scallop SCALLOP Chlamys scientific name seashells seaweed shape shell shell is covered shell measuring shell-animal shell-mouth Shipworm shores shows siphon siphon end species specimen spines spire tangle weed Tellin Teredo Top-shell Trough-shell umbilicus univalves Urchin usually Venus-shell Wentletrap whorls WRACK ZONE yellowish-white