Chlamys varia. Attached to underside of stone on Menai Strait, Aug. 2010. Mantle edges with sensory tentacles and mirror eyes (lens and reflecting mirror) of use because does not burrow. Comb-like ctenidium visible through gape of mantle lobes.

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