19 Lepidochitona cinerea

19 Lepidochitona cinerea

Dried specimen. Length 11. 7mm.
Foot shrunk and mantle cavity widened by drying. Blue arrows = water flow propelled by cilia on mantle and ctenidia.
1: lateral girdle.
2: inhalent chamber of mantle cavity.
3: fifteen ctenidia, almost whole length of mantle cavity (holobranch arrangement).
4: exhalent chamber of mantle cavity.
5: posterior girdle.
6: anus.
April 1971. Stonehaven, N.E. Scotland.

KEY ID FEATURES and similar species at: 01 Lepidochitona cinerea