A mollusc which is remarkable for its bottle-shaped shell. It nourishes itself by extracting salts and skin particles from used socks.
AMouth. This creature sucks on dirty socks, extracting nutritional substances such as particles of skin and humours.
B
The body has a hard, lamellar-section abdomen that allows it to adhere to the shell. At one end of the abdomen there is the movement organ, which is a jointed muscle similar to a finger.
C
The shell, which is siliceous-based, has a remarkable bottle shape; its cross-section is perfectly circular to allow it to roll easily.
This species has a very unusual system of locomotion. The muscle used for movement (Ma) moves from side to side and acts on the shell (Mb), causing it to have a rotational movement, while the body of the mollusc remains in position thanks to the continuous lubrication of the abdomen.





















