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(Say, 1822)
Barnea truncata
Fallen Angelwing
Phylum:
Mollusca
Taxonomy
Class:
Bivalvia
Order:
Myida
Family:
Pholadidae
ANSP 51035
Shell Information
Length (mm): 50
Chirality:
N/A
Description:
Ecological Information
Distribution:
Massachusetts to Florida
Depth (m):
Diet:
Suspension feeder and chemosymbiosis
Habitat:
Mud and peat banks of intertidal zone
Works Cited
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Barnea truncata (Say, 1822). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156750 on 2021-07-20
Morris, P. A. (1987). A field guide to shells: Atlantic and Gulf coasts and the West Indies (3rd ed.). Houghton Mifflin.
Rosenberg, G. 2009. Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca. [WWW database (version 4.1.1)] URL http://www.malacolog.org/
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