Fig. 9From: Boring bivalve traces in modern reef and deeper-water macroid and rhodolith bedsBoring mytilid bivalves from deep-water macroids off Kikai-jima, Japan. a Leiosolenus sp., inner and outer shell surface. b, c SEM photos illustrating shell microstructures of Lithophaga sp. (b) and Leiosolenus sp. (c). HO, homogeneous structure; SN, sheet nacreous; ISP, irregular simple prisms; ISpP, irregular spherulitic prismsBack to article page