APHOTOMARINE
An educational resource dedicated mainly to the photography
and diversity of marine life that can be found in coastal waters
and intertidal areas of Great Britain and Ireland by David Fenwick.
Emarginula fissura (Linnaeus, 1758) - Slit limpet (Marine snail images)
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Slit limpet
Emarginula fissura
- shell on plastic debris 1
Emarginula fissura
- shell on plastic debris 1
Slit limpet
Emarginula fissura
- shell on plastic debris 2
Specimen above found on plastic wheel hub cover washed-up after storms near Marazion, Cornwall. 11.01.14. I rarely come across this species but there were three living animals washed-up on the plastic item.
Slit limpet
Emarginula fissura
- shell 1
Slit limpet
Emarginula fissura
- shell 2
Slit limpet
Emarginula fissura
- on lobster creel 1
Specimen above found on the plastic collar of a lobster creel, the creel was trawled up off the coast of S.W. Cornwall. Specimen photographed on the 30.08.17.
Slit limpet
Emarginula fissura
- shell slit / front view 1
Slit limpet
Emarginula fissura
- shell side view 1
Slit limpet
Emarginula fissura
- shell side view 2
Slit limpet
Emarginula fissura
- shell top view 1
Slit limpet
Emarginula fissura
- shell slit / front view 2
Slit limpet
Emarginula fissura
- shell side view 3
Images taken by the author, of shell within the Royal Cornwall Museum collections. 13.11.11. Top three images are of a shell dredged at 15m, from the Bay of Paimpol, Brittany, France. The size of this shell is 8.3mm, this specimen was purchased from Guido T. Poppe - Philippe Poppe, Conchology, Inc..
The lower three images on this page are, by agreement, copyright the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
Scientific and European Names:
Emarginula fissura, Emarginula reticulata, Slit limpet.
The main objective of this website is in furthering environmental awareness and education through the medium of photography. To increase awareness and access to the wildlife of the region and help
people find and identify it. Sometimes the difference between species is obvious but many species can only be determined by observing microscopic characteristics that are specific to any one species.