Blood Clam

Barbatia virescens

• Group: Other

An ark clam that lives wedged on rocks and dead coral across intertidal shores, even on wave battered exposed coast. It anchors among mussel beds by tough byssal threads, holding firm where the surf would sweep loose shells away.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Arcida › Arcidae › Barbatia

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 207777.