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Pandora glacialis Leach, 1819

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Bivalvia - bivalves »  order Anomalodesmata »  family Pandoridae »  genus Pandora

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Pandora glacialis

Author: Mikkelsen & Bieler

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Description

Semicircular, left valve convex, centrally inflated and larger than right valve, right valve centrally flattened, sharply concave ventrally and overlapping left valve along posterodorsal margin, moderately compressed, thin-walled, white with light brownish periostracum, left valve smooth with irregular commarginal surface, right valve with weak radial scratches; interior margin smooth. North Atlantic, Massachusetts, Florida Keys, also Arctic coasts worldwide. Length 18 mm.
Mikkelsen, P.M. & Bieler, R., 2003. Seashells of Southern Florida. Living Marine Mollusks of the Florida Keys and Adjacent Regions: Bivalves.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Pandora glacialis Leach, 1819]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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