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Class: Gastropoda. 4 specimens. Very small, white and conical. Pointed, with straight sides and with 5-6 whorls. Does not live intertidally, but at depths of 20m-80m with Bryozoas.

Class: Gastropoda. 2 specimens. Very small, pale grey and conical with convex sides. Normally ridged, but these specimens have been worn smooth.

Class: Polyplacophora. 4 specimen, 1 of which is concreted to a fragment of maerl. Oval-shaped, ridged, colour ranging from pale to dark pink.

Class: Gastropoda. 2 specimens, Needle like and conical but with a blunt tip. Off white with well defined whorls of which it has 7-8. Found in muddy sands where it lives at 20-400m deep.

Class: Gastropoda. 6 specimens. There are a number of different varieties of this species. Robert Rendall's Mollusca Orcadensia talks of the elata variety, so these specimens likely belong there.

Class: Gastropoda. 5 specimens. Off white and faded yellow. Conical with defined whorls and well defined cross-hatching linear ridges. Sparingly found in deep sea zones among corallines.

Class: Gastropoda. 9 specimens. Off-white, often with red bands on the whorls but these have worn off on these examples. Conical but rounded.

Class: Gastropoda. 2 specimens. Pale grey, very small and delicate. Made up of 4 and a half whorls. Found around red algae and in pools with corallines.

Class: Gastropoda. 11 specimens. Off white with brown spiralling bands. Conical with rounded apex. Commonly found in silty crevices or under stones on more exposed shores.

Class: Gastropoda. 4 specimens. Minute, grey, coiled shell with a slightly depressed centre spire. Can be found on fine algae and around corallines but it's rarely found in winter.