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Calliostoma selectum

Ocean Survey 2020 voyage TAN0705
There is always so little we know about the ecology and behaviour of these animals that any of this information is exciting: apparently this species feeds on tube-dwelling polychaetes and hydroids (according to Steve de C. Cook’s ‘Coastal Marine Invertebrates’ book).