Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 130619
Text Type: 1
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Created: 2024-09-13 21:19:10 - User Delsing Jan
Last change: 2024-09-13 21:19:35 - User Delsing Jan
Language: EN Text function: [[t:518968,textblock=130619,elang=EN;Description]]
Shell solid, well swollen, near elongate squarish, 19.0 mm in height, 29.3 mm in length and 18.1 mm in breadth; anterior side rounded and posterior rather wide, obliquely truncated; ligamental area elongate rhomboidal in shape, a shallow groove on each umbonal part; surface covered with a thin light-brown epidermis, and with about 23 radial ribs, ribs of left valve convex and wider than ones of right valve, interspaces between ribs depth.
Distribution: South China Sea; Tropical Indo-Pacific region.
Ecology: Found in muddy sand bottom of 22 - 51 m depth, uncommon in China.
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