Svalbard, Norway (not uncommon), east to Kattegat, west to Ireland, south to Mediterranean (rare), including North Sea, Adriatic and Aegean. Filter feeder, burrowed in fine mixed sand, in the infralittoral down to the low circalitoral. Original taxon: Solen pellucidus. Synonyms: adriaticus, pygmaeus…
60-70m deep, Strait of Gibraltar. 20,5mm.
Dorsal margin straight, ventral margin convex; anterior margin rounded, posterior margin slightly truncate. The shell is more rectangular in shape than that of the african species tenellus Cosel. – Above: specimen ZMBN_106408 from intertidal ground of Hopavågen, Slettvik side, southern Trøndelag County, Norway. 27,5mm. Original pictures provided by K. Kongshavn, University of Bergen, Natural History Collections, for gbif.org.
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Original picture provided by P. Ugarković (HR).
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18m deep, Čiovo island, Split-Dalmatia Comitat, S. Croatia. 27,4mm. Original pictures provided by R. Stanić (HR).
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