14 Trivia arctica

14 Trivia arctica

Stages of body extension from shell. Body very pliable, can withdraw into/extend from narrow aperture with speed and ease; siphon usually extended first to test water.
Colour saturation greatest top left where mantle most contracted. Saturation diminishes with extension; least at bottom right.

Height (longest shell-dimension) 9 mm. Menai Strait, Wales. March 2014.