05 Myosotella myosotis. Juveniles from 1.2 mm to 2.4 mm high. Salting on tidal River Dee, Flintshire, Wales. December 2018.

05 Myosotella myosotis. Juveniles from 1.2 mm to 2.4 mm high.  Salting on tidal River Dee, Flintshire, Wales. December 2018.

1: punctate spiral lines on white shell of 3 or fewer whorls.
2: earlier punctate spiral lines surviving on apex of older juvenile.
3: older juvenile has brown periostracum drawn out into row of subsutural hairs.
4: umbilicus-like slit in the apex caused by the change from the sinistral larval shell (protoconch) to a dextral later shell (teleoconch).

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