Burrowing Datemussel

Leiosolenus lischkei

• Group: Other

Rather than build a shell on the surface, this mussel bores into soft rock and old shells, dissolving its way inside and living buried in the tunnel it makes. It stays in the intertidal zone, with only the tips of its burrow open to the water for feeding.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Mytilida › Modiolidae › Leiosolenus

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 506079.