Cyrtopleura Tryon 1862

Description: English: Cyrtopleura costata Linnaeus, 1758 - angelwing clam shell (modern) from Florida, USA. Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates. Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood. The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record. Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Myida, Pholadidae Locality: southern end of the western shoreline of Cayo Costa Island, western side of Pine Island Sound, offshore from the Gulf of Mexico coast of southern Florida, USA See info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtopleura_costata. Date: 13 April 2020, 17:58:34. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/49775336672/. Author: James St. John.

Description: English: Cyrtopleura costata Linnaeus, 1758 - angelwing clam shell (modern) from Florida, USA. Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates. Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood. The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record. Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Myida, Pholadidae Locality: southern end of the western shoreline of Cayo Costa Island, western side of Pine Island Sound, offshore from the Gulf of Mexico coast of southern Florida, USA See info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtopleura_costata. Date: 13 April 2020, 17:56:20. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/49774471713/. Author: James St. John.

Description: angelwing, Cyrtopleura costata, 73mm. York River, York County, VA - 11/05/13. Caught by VIMS Trawl Survey. Photo by Robert Aguilar, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Date: 12 April 2006, 02:24. Source: Cyrtopleura_costata_(I0621). Author: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

Description: Cyrtopleura costata Linnaeus, 1758 - angelwing clam shell (modern) from Florida, USA. Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates. Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood. The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record. Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Myida, Pholadidae Locality: southern end of the western shoreline of Cayo Costa Island, western side of Pine Island Sound, offshore from the Gulf of Mexico coast of southern Florida, USA See info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtopleura_costata. Date: 13 April 2020, 17:58. Source: Cyrtopleura costata (angelwing clam shell) (Cayo Costa Island, Florida, USA) 5. Author: James St. John.

Description: Cyrtopleura costata, anglewing, 61 mm. Isle of Wight Bay, Worcester County, Ocean City Quad, MD - 12/12/17. Photo by Robert Aguilar, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Collected by MD DNR Coastal Shellfish Survey. Date: 5 February 2016, 10:12. Source: Cyrtopleura costata_(I1932)_0196. Author: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

Description: Cyrtopleura costata Linnaeus, 1758 - angelwing clam shell (modern) from Florida, USA. Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates. Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood. The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record. Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Myida, Pholadidae Locality: southern end of the western shoreline of Cayo Costa Island, western side of Pine Island Sound, offshore from the Gulf of Mexico coast of southern Florida, USA See info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtopleura_costata. Date: 13 April 2020, 17:59. Source: Cyrtopleura costata (angelwing clam shell) (Cayo Costa Island, Florida, USA) 8. Author: James St. John.

Description: English: Cyrtopleura costata Linnaeus, 1758 - angelwing clam shell (modern) from Florida, USA. Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates. Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood. The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record. Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Myida, Pholadidae Locality: southern end of the western shoreline of Cayo Costa Island, western side of Pine Island Sound, offshore from the Gulf of Mexico coast of southern Florida, USA See info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtopleura_costata. Date: 13 April 2020, 17:58:01. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/49775006791/. Author: James St. John.

Description: English: Cyrtopleura costata Linnaeus, 1758 - angelwing clam shell (modern) from Florida, USA. Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates. Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood. The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record. Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Myida, Pholadidae Locality: southern end of the western shoreline of Cayo Costa Island, western side of Pine Island Sound, offshore from the Gulf of Mexico coast of southern Florida, USA See info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtopleura_costata. Date: 13 April 2020, 17:58:26. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/49775006421/. Author: James St. John.

Description: English: Exhibit in the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. Date: 9 June 2013, 14:43:01. Source: Own work. Author: Daderot.

Description: English: Pholas costata (now known as Cyrtopleura costata), the angel-wing clam. From: Gould, Augustus A. (1870) Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts, Second Edition, Boston: Wright and Potter, p. 37. Date: 31 December 1870. Source: https://archive.org/details/reportoninverteb1870goul/page/37. Author: Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925.

Description: English: Cyrtopleura/Barnea costata Linnaeus, 1758. Found in mud, about 50 cm deep. Fort Myers, Florida, USA. length 13 cm. Date: 19 February 2011. Source: Own work. Author: MerlinCharon.

Description: English: Picture of live Angel Wing Clam. Date: 25 July 2020, 16:25:40. Source: Own work. Author: Undersea Repairman. Camera location41° 15′ 39.24″ N, 72° 49′ 11.28″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 41.260900; -72.819800.

Description: Cyrtopleura costata Linnaeus, 1758 - angelwing clam shell (modern) from Florida, USA. Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates. Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood. The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record. Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Myida, Pholadidae Locality: southern end of the western shoreline of Cayo Costa Island, western side of Pine Island Sound, offshore from the Gulf of Mexico coast of southern Florida, USA See info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtopleura_costata. Date: 13 April 2020, 17:58. Source: Cyrtopleura costata (angelwing clam shell) (Cayo Costa Island, Florida, USA) 6. Author: James St. John.

Description: Cyrtopleura costata Linnaeus, 1758 - angelwing clam shell (modern) from Florida, USA. Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates. Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood. The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record. Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Myida, Pholadidae Locality: southern end of the western shoreline of Cayo Costa Island, western side of Pine Island Sound, offshore from the Gulf of Mexico coast of southern Florida, USA See info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtopleura_costata. Date: 13 April 2020, 17:59. Source: Cyrtopleura costata (angelwing clam shell) (Cayo Costa Island, Florida, USA) 7. Author: James St. John.