03 Bittium reticulatum. Shell heights 2.9 mm and 6.2 mm. Llŷn Peninsula, North Wales. March 2016.

03 Bittium reticulatum. Shell heights 2.9 mm and 6.2 mm. Llŷn Peninsula, North Wales. March 2016.

Small, lemon-shape aperture.
1: adapical angle about 90º.
2: approximately cicular, brown, concentric operculum with subcentral nucleus and a few well defined growth lines.
3: thin palatal lip and glossy, reddish interior of aperture fluted by grooves corresponding to spiral ridges of exterior.
4: colourless, transparent periphery of operculum.
5: short, shallow, inhalent anterior sinus inclined to left at base of columella.
6: columellar lip widely reflected, no umbilicus, pale purple.
7: columellar lip widely reflected, no umbilicus, white.

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