toga awningclam

Solemya togata

Classification

Class: Bivalvia
Order: Solemyida
Family: Solemyidae

Solemyidae is a family of saltwater clams, marine protobranch bivalve mollusks in the order Solemyida. Biology Solemyids are remarkable in that their digestive tract is either extremely small or non-existent, and their feeding appendages are too short to reach outside the shell. It has been shown that these clams host sulphur-oxidizing bacteria intracellularly within their gill filaments.

Distribution

toga awningclam — (c) A–E – Graham Oliver, Clara F. Rodrigues, Marina R. Cunha F – J. D. Taylor, E. A. Glover, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Italy · 3France · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) A–E – Graham Oliver, Clara F. Rodrigues, Marina R. Cunha F – J. D. Taylor, E. A. Glover, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionSolemyidae, Wikipedia contributors

toga awningclam

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