Spiny Myrtea

Myrtea spinifera

Classification

Class: Bivalvia
Order: Lucinida
Family: Lucinidae

Myrtea is a genus of bivalves, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Lucinidae. Description Members of the genus have an oval-trangulate, nearly equilateral shell. The hinge of one valve has a single tooth and two lateral teeth, with two teeth on the opposing valve with lateral teeth obscured.

Distribution

Spiny Myrtea — (c) Niko Ioannidis, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Niko Ioannidis · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

France · 62United Kingdom · 32Italy · 1

Sources and credits

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Spiny Myrtea

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