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Type locality:According to Dickie l. c. it has been taken from "Swain's Bay, common, Eaton. The only example preserved was grappled in about 2 fathoms in a tideway between two islands, incrusting two sponges (Micrciona atrosanguinea, Bk., and Halichondria incrustans, Jtn; both British species)".