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Pandora inflata Boss & Merrill, 1965

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

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Pandora inflata

Author: Mikkelsen & Bieler

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Description

Broadly semicircular, ventral margin roundly protruding midventrally, left valve convex and larger than flat-tened right valve; thin-walled, white, left valve smooth with faint radial scratches, right valve with radial scratches and two radial carinate ridges along posterodorsal margin; interior nacreous with non-nacreous border on right valve, margin smooth. Massachusetts to Florida, Gulf of Mexico. Length 11 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 inflata Boss & Merrill, 1965]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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