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Giant Coquina Clam

(Lamarck, 1818)

Iphigenia brasiliensis

Class:

Bivalvia

Order:

Cardiida

Family:

Donacidae

Donacidae

Image Voucher: 

ANSP 354375

Shell Information

Length (mm): 76

N/A

Chirality:

Description:

Ecological Information

Distribution:

Depth (m):

Florida to the Caribbean Sea

Diet:

Suspension feeder

Habitat:

Marine; Shallow water

Misc. Facts

Citations

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Iphigenia brasiliensis (Lamarck, 1818). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420905 on 2021-07-20

Morris, P. A. (1987). A field guide to shells: Atlantic and Gulf coasts and the West Indies (3rd ed.). Houghton Mifflin.

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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