Baggy Pen Shell

Streptopinna saccata

• Group: Other

A pen shell that lives buried point down in mud, sand or gravel, the baggy pen shell anchors itself in soft seabed from the shallows into deeper water. Records of it are scarce, with one specimen found at about 20 metres.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Ostreida › Pinnidae › Streptopinna

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 216656.