Modiolus americanus (American horse mussel) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 2 (15568036104)
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Description: Modiolus americanus (Leach, 1815) - interior of a right valve of the American horse mussel, 3.15 cm across at its widest. Family Mytilidae (Devonian to Holocene) - the mussels are filter-feeding, epifaunal, byssal thread attachers that principally occupy shallow to deep marine and estuarine environments. Date: 6 March 2011, 18:40. Source: Modiolus americanus (American horse mussel) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 2. Author: James St. John.
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- Eukaryota
- Opisthokonta
- Metazoa (animals)
- Bilateria (bilaterians)
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Bivalvia (bivalves)
- Autobranchia
- Pteriomorphia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
- Modiolus
- Modiolus americanus
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