Outside of left valve
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected from Cyprus. Length = 36mm.
<em>Modiolus barbatus</em> (Linnaeus, 1758)
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected from Cyprus. Length = 36mm.
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by TGW Fowler from Weymouth, Dorset. Length = 35mm.
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by TGW Fowler from Weymouth, Dorset. Length = 48mm.
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by TGW Fowler from Weymouth, Dorset. Length = 48mm.
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by TGW Fowler from Weymouth, Dorset. Length = 48mm.
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by TGW Fowler from Weymouth, Dorset. Length = 48mm.
CommonDistributed from the south and west of Britain south to the Iberian Peninsula and into the Mediterranean.
Lives in a byssal net under rocks or in crevices (included within Laminaria holdfasts) where it filter feeds.
Brittle shell up to 6cm in length. Red in colour but this is mainly obscured by the yellow or brown periostracum. Inside of the shell is pale blue. The surface is sculptured with fine concentric lines and ridges.