It is a bioeroding species and burrows into limestone rocks, stones and corals.

The tip of the introvert bears the oral disc with the mouth and six to twelve short tentacles.

[4] It is a bioeroding organism and burrows into limestone rocks and stones, as well as coral heads, coralline algae and the shells of bivalve molluscs.

[2] In the Mediterranean Sea, this species was found burrowing in calcareous rocks, in coralline algae (Corallina mediterranea) and in the mussel (Brachidontes pharaonis),[3] another organism that has invaded the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal.

[3] Reproduction in this species is by transverse fission; a constriction appears at the posterior end of the trunk, gradually deepening until the part becomes detached, with regeneration of the main body components then following.