Section of girdle from specimen 11 mm long. Mantle greatly thickened where reflected around periphery to form a fleshy girdle into which ends of valves deeply embedded.
1: distinct, crowded, depressed granules on valve viii. (Larger, less distinct granules on other valves.)
2: distinct, crowded, round granules on girdle.
3: edge of girdle fringed by translucent golden spines up to 104μm long.
Menai Strait, Wales. February 2011.

KEY ID FEATURES and similar species at: 01 Lepidochitona cinerea