Dublin Coast Seashells: Gastropods (1 shell snails)

Limpets        

Cowrie  

Patella  sp  &  Key  hole  limpet  Diodora  sp  

Shell  size:  up  to  5cm  

Shell  size:  up  to  1.5cm  

Ocenebra  erinacea  

Shell  size:  up  to  4.5cm  

Shell  size:  up  to  3cm  

Shell  size:  up  to  3cm  

SKng  Whelk  

Spindle  Whelk    Neptunea  an6qua    

Nassarius  re6culatus  

Nucella  lapillus  

Aporrhais  pespelecani  

 

NeJed  Dog  Whelk  

Dog  Whelk  

Pelican  Foot  Whelk  

Buccinum  undatum  

Shell  size:  up  to  10cm  

 

Common  Whelk  and  eggs  

Cypraeidae  

Shell  size:  up  to  3cm  

Shell  size:  up  to  3cm  

 

Shell  size:  up  to  4.5cm  

Shell  size:  up  to  10cm  

Shell  size:  up  to  6cm  

Shell  size:  up  to  1.5cm  

Dublin  Coast  Seashells:  Gastropods        (1  shell  snails)  

Acteon  

Acteon  torna6lis  

Tower  Shell  

Shell  size:  up  to  4.5cm  

Shell  size:  up  to  1.8cm  

Shell  size:  up  to  2cm  

Shell  size:  up  to  3cm  

Rough  Periwinkle   Calliostoma  zizyphinum    

Flat  Top  Shells   Gibbula  sp  

Li>orina  saxa6lis  

Li>orina  li>oralis  

Shell  size:  up  to  5cm  

Scaphander  lignarius  

Turritella  spp  

Painted  Top  Shell  

Flat  Periwinkle  

Woody  canoe  

Toothed   Periwinkle  

Osilinus  lineatus    

Coastwatch  www.coastwatch.org  

     Civil  &  Environmental  Eng.,  TCD  Dublin,  D  2.  086  8111  684  or  [email protected] Design:  K  Dubsky  with  S  Fox,  M  Taylor,  S  Clear,  C  Loughlin    

Edible  Periwinkle   Li>orina  li>orea