Author: (Putnam, 1874)
FBname: Pacific pearlfish
Comments: Uncommon species (Ref. 34024).  Benthic (Ref. 58302).  Adults inhabit the body cavity of pearl shells (<i>Pinctada</i>), pen shells (<i>Pinna</i>), and cockles (<i>Laevicardium</i>).  Oviparous, with pelagic vexillifer stage larva, and benthic tenuis stage larva (Ref. 36487).
  Also found in following shells in the Gulf of California:  <i>Megapitaria squalida<i>, <i>M. aurantiaca<i>, <i>Laevicardium elatum<i> and <i>Spondylus princeps<i> (Ref. 38407).