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benthic; marine |
Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean: Germany and Ireland. |
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Inhabits sandbanks in clean to generally medium-grained sand. An herbivorous epistratum-feeder; microvore that feeds on organic detritus (Ref. 96352). Feeds on diatoms, detritus, copepods, foraminiferans and on a variety of small invertebrates (based on the feeding ecology of the family Hesionidae; Ref. 87179). |
Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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