Eared Ark

Anadara notabilis

• Group: Other
• Typical depth: 0–75 m

A ribbed ark clam of shallow soft bottoms, it lives in mud and sand and sometimes among seagrass on intertidal flats. Other small animals settle and live on its shell, and amphipods share its space as harmless lodgers.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 420712.