A colleague found a Montacuta near Antarctica. He thinks it could
be Montacuta christenseni Grieg, 1929. But the problem is that
Grieg only gave a description without a figure. I checked Dell
(1990), but he doesn't mention this species. Does anybody knows
if a picture of this species was published?

For the general public: Montacuta's are small bivalves, that often
are living commensally on the spines of irregular sea-urchins.


Marc Lavaleye
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