Figured: S M Smith
Length: 38 mm

Taken by scallop dredge in 53m in the North Minch in 1992 (D W McKay). Living with Zirfaea crispata in the Sound of Raasay in 1988 and 1992 (D W McKay). Several small specimens found living in a calcareous concretion trawled from 120m in the Passage of Tiree in 1981 (Smith, 1981a, 1983a). Jeffreys (1859) reported it living 'in lumps of indurated clay from clayey mud found at a depth of about 25fms near Lismore .... and in Triassic sandstone off Antrim'. Found in 2008 at Straidkilly, Antrim, living in the same sandstone. Also found by Traill at Glenarm.
Collections: NMI, NMSZ

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