Microphthalmus similis Bobretzky, 1870
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Family:  Hesionidae ()
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Environment:  benthic; marine
Distribution:  Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean: Germany and Ireland.
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Biology:  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).
IUCN Red List Status: Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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