01 Crepidula fornicata

01 Crepidula fornicata

Male on larger female. Reniform outline.  Body whorl forms almost all of shell. Thin, wavy red-brown lines radiate from small depressed spire (1). White band on periphery (2). Thin, fragmentary, yellow-brown periostracum; more substantial where it extends beyond rim of aperture (3).  L. 18 mm. Portland Harbour, England, April 2012.