Figured: S M Smith; (Jeffreys, 1869 [Pl. 98: 1 as Melampus bidentatus])
Length: 7 mm

Fairly common and locally numerous, living under boulders in silt, in crevices of fissile rock or amongst mortar of old piers (habitat lost when piers are renovated), upper shore. Few old records, mostly from the Clyde.
Collections: NMI, NMSZ, UM

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