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West Indian Awning Clam

Solemya occidentalis Deshayes 1857

trophic guild

World Register of Marine Species
chemosymbiotroph
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/chemosymbiotroph

Definition: A consumer that derives energy from a chemosynthetic symbiont

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Paleobiology Database
chemosymbiosis
URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q50616418

Definition: a symbiosis in which a bacterium provides chemically-derived energy and nutrients, often via the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide, to a heterotrophic organism.

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Paleobiology Database
deposit feeder
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/depositFeeder

Definition: an organism that eats particulate organic material in or on sediments.

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