Lagoon spire shell

[Matt Shardlow]

Lagoon spire shell (Heleobia stagnorum) rediscovered in England.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1383397/Lagoon-spire-snail-thought-extinct-Roman-times-living-harbour-pond.html

 

We have several species that live only in saline lagoons, ponds on the cusp of land and sea, this is perhaps the rarest!

 

 

Cheers

 

Matt

 

 

Matt Shardlow

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