When moving, the foot and shell are cushioned on a layer of watery mucus that is sometimes mistaken for the foot, which usually underlies little more than the aperture.
1: watery mucus spreading out from foot.
2: watery mucus cushion under foot.
3: watery mucus cushion under shell.
4: foot.
Shell heights 3.3 mm and 3.45 mm. Both in air. Salting by tidal River Dee, Flintshire, Wales. December 2018.
26 Myosotella myosotis form denticulata.
