site | site # (info) | collection date | kind | depth | substrate | salin | comments | reference | |
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A | West Fire Island (Fire Island, West Island), New York, USA | 1467 map | Sep 4, 1940 | type locality | sand | collected by Dr. Marvin Meyer, on western end of Fire Island. 'Habitually found in empty shells of the clam Venus, whence the specific name.' | Hyman LH (1944): 6 | ||
B | Bogue Sound, near Beaufort, North Carolina, USA | 1472 map | Jun 20, 1946 | collected by Dr. Harold Humm in Bogue Sound on the fronds of red alga, Mitophyllum medium. 'Not only the adults but also many young and spherical organg capsules were present on the alga.' | Hyman LH (1952): 200 |