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Atlantic Kitten's Paw

Lamarck, 1801

Plicatula gibbosa

Class:

Bivalvia

Order:

Pectinida

Family:

Plicatulidae

Plicatulidae

Image Voucher: 

ANSP 411823

Shell Information

Length (mm): 40

N/A

Chirality:

Description:

Ecological Information

Distribution:

Depth (m):

North Carolina to Quintana Roo

0 to 120 meters

Diet:

Suspension feeder

Habitat:

Marine

Misc. Facts

Citations

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Plicatula gibbosa Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207848 on 2021-07-20

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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