Rhabdus rectius  (Western Straight Tuskshell)

© Ronald Shimek (Photo ID #39420)

Photographer's Submitted Details

Photo Location	Imperial Eagle Channel, North of Sanford Island, Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island, BC.
Photographer	Ronald Shimek
Habitat	Subtidal Silty Sand
Photo Date	June 15, 1984
Upload Date	May 21, 2013
Elevation (m)	-80
Latitude	48.8777777777778
Longitude	-125.185833333333
Photo ID #	39420
Comments	The most abundant scaphopod in BC waters, this animal reaches densities of 50 animals per square meter or more in many of the fjord systems along the coast. Unlike the other scaphopods in the region, this animal is a generalized feeder eating everything from kinorhynchs to foraminiferans to sediment to small pieces of polyeurythae rope. It is eatend by the Ratfish Hydrolagus colliei.