Collections

Specimen, shell

Other name(s): 
Acteon tornatilis
Acteon tornatilis
Lathe acteon
European acteon
beer barrel
The acteon shell
Collection ID: 
Z555.1.138
Collection: 
Zoology
Class: Gastropoda. 2 specimens. Spiral shell with a cylindrical body and approx. 5 whorls. Pale pink in colour with white striped bands irregularly running both horizontally and vertically. 1 specimens is broken and missing its apex while the other is whole. It burrows in clean, fine sands and is easiest to collect on the rising tide.

Field collection

CollectorRobert Rendall

References

Reference literatureRendall, R. 'Mollusca Orcandensia' (1956) Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 66, pp.131-201 (p.173)