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Littorina (periwinkles)

Date: 6 May 2008
Location: Dorset, England
State: Egg mass
Record Summary: egg mass on Saw-wrack
Associated organism: on live frond of Fucus serrratus
Identification Notes: Gelatinous mass, 5/6mm, on Saw-wrack thallus.

Images etc

magnified photograph Egg mass - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 448 pixels
magnified photograph Egg mass - close-up - highly enlarged 500 by 447 pixels
magnified photograph Veliger larvae within eggs - close-up - magnified 500 by 347 pixels
magnified photograph Veliger larvae within eggs - close-up - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Veliger larvae within eggs - close-up - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Veliger larvae within eggs - close-up - magnified 500 by 419 pixels
magnified photograph Veliger larvae within eggs - close-up - magnified 500 by 479 pixels

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