33 Marsenia perspicua. COMPARE Velutina plicatilis

33 Marsenia perspicua. COMPARE Velutina plicatilis

Velutina plicatilis (O. F. Müller, 1776)
Maximum length when live c.18mm (excluding protruding foot and tentacles).
Thick unfused mantle lobes (1) can overlap a short way onto exterior of shell, but not sufficiently to cover it.
Thin translucent shell consists mainly of periostracum with velvet like texture through which yellow/orange/brown viscera visible within ; often mistaken for the mantle of a dorid seaslug. Epizooic organisms such as barnacles (2) may adhere to the shell.

Moray coast, north-east Scotland. May 2018. © C. Rickard.