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Animal
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Bivalves
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Animal
Name
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Modiolus philippinarum (Hanley)
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Classification
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Kingdom
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Animalia
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Phylum
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Mollusca
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Class
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Bivalvia
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Order
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Mytiloida
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Family
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Mytilidae
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Characteristic Features |
-Surface sculpture consists of numerous fine concentric
lines under a light -The interior is pearly and dyed in white and purplish red,
and the margin -Shell to 6 cm | |
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Ecology
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Habitat
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Lives attached by a byssus, presumably in coarse substrates
but records are of beached shell
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Distribution
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