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Striped Venus

Chamelea striatula

Classification

Family
Veneridae

Chamelea gallina is a species of small saltwater clam, a marine bivalve in the family Veneridae, the venus clams. Taxonomy Carl Linnaeus originally described Venus gallina from the Mediterranean Sea in 1758. It was not clear whether da Costa's 1778 Pectunculus striatulus was a different northern species or not.

Distribution

Dick Belgers · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 3,716United Kingdom · 680Spain · 151France · 118Germany · 90Italy · 6