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A whole specimen of Anthoptilum grandiflorum

Credit: Peter Marriott, NIWA. Oceans Survey 20/20 Bay of Islands.

A whole specimen of Anthoptilum grandiflorum with a slender and terminally pointed muscular peduncle, which it uses to anchor into soft sediment.