27 Nucella lapillus. Shell height 32.5mm. Mouth of Mersey Estuary, England. July 2014.

27 Nucella lapillus. Shell height 32.5mm. Mouth of Mersey Estuary, England. July 2014.

Basal two thirds of cephalic tentacle thickened by fusion with eye peduncle; black eye on summit of outer face of thickened section. This specimen has 1 : open ventral division on base of tentacle; perhaps all are so divided but usually keep closed, or this specimen aberrant. 2: anterior edge of operculum embedded in opercular groove exuding it. 3 posterior edge of operculum not overlapped by opercular disc.