Limopsis sulcata

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Limopsis sulcata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Arcida
Family: Limopsidae
Genus: Limopsis
Species:
L. sulcata
Binomial name
Limopsis sulcata
Verrill & Bush, 1898

Limopsis sulcata, common name the sulcate limopsis, is a species of very small clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Limopsidae. This species occurs along the Atlantic coast of North America from Massachusetts to the West Indies. [1]

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References

  1. Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 12.