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Author: Steve Wilkinson on 9 March 2011
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Recorded UK distribution

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Abra alba
Abra alba
Outside of right valve
Acanthocardia aculeata
Outside of right valve
Acanthocardia echinata
Outside of right valve
Acanthocardia tuberculata
Acteon tornatilis
Acteon tornatilis
Adalaria proxima. Club-shape or ellipsoid tubercles on mantle have obtusely pointed apex. Fifteen lamellae visible on rhinophore. Orkney, November 1975; white is most frequent colour form there.
Adalaria proxima
Aeolidia papillosa. Length 55mm. Body sprinkled rose and yellow, cerata brown. Head lacks pale triangle. Oral tentacles powdered white distally, and grey flakes proximally, but no white line. White anal papilla near rufous faeces. Menai Strait. March 2010
Aeolidia papillosa
Parts of an aeolid nudibranch. Adapted from illustration in Alder, J. & Hancock, A. 1845-1855. A monograph of the British nudibranchiate mollusca. London, Ray Society.
Aeolidiacea
Aeolidiella glauca. L. 23mm. Body anterior translucent orange with opaque orange-white stipple. Posterior cream with a few white spots. White pigment spots on fine posterior tip of foot. Oral tentacles translucent white with pigment flecks. Menai, Wales.
Aeolidiella glauca
Aeolidiella sanguinea. Anterior of foot convex and drawn out into distinct short counter- curved propodial tentacles. Oral tentacles coloured as head, with white tips, space between them same as thickness at base. LWS, Menai Strait, Wales. Sept. 2009.
Aeolidiella sanguinea
Outside of left valve
Aequipecten opercularis
Ancula gibbosa. Length 10mm. Dark brown marks position of anus. Extreme low water spring tide, Menai Strait, Wales. March 2011.
Ancula gibbosa
View of right valve of Angulus squalidus.
Angulus squalidus
Left valve of Angulus tenuis showing colour variation
Angulus tenuis
Aporrhais pespelecani
Aporrhais pespelecani
Right valve of Arcopagia crassa
Arcopagia crassa
Left valve of Arcopella balaustina
Arcopella balaustina
Outside of right valve
Arctica islandica
Outside of right valve
Barnea candida
Outside of right valve
Barnea parva
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