02 Otina ovata

02 Otina ovata

Vacant shells in water. Colour variation from reddish-brown to purple brown depends partly on lighting and colour of substrate and whether shell is vacant or occupied, and in water or air.
1: whorls distinctly convex, but in profile shell is a depressed dome.
2 : debris lodged in suture.
Shell length 2.3 mm. North Yorkshire, September 2014. (leg. Jan Light.)