Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ensis ensis

Ensis ensis
Voting period ends on 26 May 2013 at 12:39:02 (UTC)
 * Reason:High EV and good quality
 * Articles in which this image appears:Ensis ensis
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Animals/Molluscs
 * Creator:Michael Gäbler


 * Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 12:39, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Support EV and quality are good. -- WingtipvorteX  PTT   ∅  22:23, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Per Wingtipvortex.    Sophus Bie  (talk) 09:48, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I am a founder member of Project Bivalves. This is a nice image photographically speaking, but it is not a good specimen to illustrate the species. The shell has been lying around for quite a while. It is green inside from algae; the outer surface of the shell has been damaged by exposure to the air post mortem; and the acorn barnacles are obscuring the hinge line area of the shell, which is important for identification. This is a very active burrowing species, and I think the acorn barnacles must have colonized the shell after the animal died, which means it had been dead for quite a while when it was photographed. The image could perhaps be used to help illustrate taphonomy I guess. I have changed the image in the taxobox of the Ensis ensis article to one that is much more useful, albeit not as attractive. Invertzoo (talk) 12:55, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 14:26, 26 May 2013 (UTC)