Chalky Buttercup Lucine

Pegophysema schrammi

Classification

Class: Bivalvia
Order: Lucinida
Family: Lucinidae

Anodontia philippiana, or the chalky buttercup, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Lucinidae. It can be found burrowing in soft substrate in shallow waters along the Atlantic coast of North America, its range extending from North Carolina in the United States to the West Indies and Bermuda. Description The chalky buttercup grows to a maximum length of 10 centimetres (3.

Distribution

Chalky Buttercup Lucine — (c) Larry Jensen, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 38United Kingdom · 5Brazil · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Larry Jensen, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionAnodontia philippiana, Wikipedia contributors

Chalky Buttercup Lucine

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